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LOW E LL 


Chelmsford, Graniteville, Forge Village, Dracut, Collinsville, 


OF 


TO-DAY. 


THEIR 


COMMERCE, TRADE AND INDUSTRIES, 


DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL. 


LOWELL DAILY CITIZEN, 
1893 . 





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3o-3f 0 00 . 


PRESS OF 

LOWELL DAILY CITIZEN, 
LOWELL, MASS. 














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LOWELL AND VICINITY OF TO-DAY 


THE FOUNDING. 


A T the beginning of the present century, East Chelms¬ 
ford was a hamlet with a tavern, where the men 
and beasts that passed over the highways leading from 
Vermont and New Hampshire to Boston and Salem, 
found rest and refreshment. 

The Merrimack and Concord rivers ran “ unfettered 
to the sea,” and the memory of the red man was still 
fresh in the minds of the hardy settlers who had wrested 
the land from his barbarous possession. 

Eight years before, “ the Proprietors of the Locks 
and Canals on Merrimack River” had been incorporated, 
and had built the Pawtucket canal from above Pawtucket 
Falls to the Concord River. Through this canal, the 
boats which came down the Merrimack passed to New- 
buryport and the sea, and the lumbermen no longer 
dreaded the turbulent waters of the rapids which had 
made their occupation so full of danger. 

In twenty years the hamlet had become a village of 
two hundred and fifty inhabitants, and it boasted among 
other industrial advantages a cotton mill at Pawtucket 
Falls, the Whipple Powder Mills, a flannel mill, several 
grist and saw mills, and a water highway to Boston 
Harbor. 

The Middlesex Canal was projected in 1793 and 
was completed in 1S04. Its original cost was $500,000, 
but its stockholders paid in assessments, $600,000 before 
they realized any dividend. 

The canal ran from a point about a mile above 
Pawtucket Falls, to Charlestown. The initial expense was 
so great that the stockholders received no benefit; but 
there is everv reason to believe that the canal would, in 
time, have become a source of profit. 

Fisher & Ames built a dam at Massic Falls on the 
Concord River, about 1S20, and used the water to oper¬ 
ate their forging mills. Moses Whipple had amassed a 
fortune in the manufacture of gunpowder and built the 
Whipple Canal, which was afterwards extended and called 
the Wamesit Canal. 


But the creative hand of enterprise had not touched 
the mighty force of the noble Merrimack; nor had it 
even entered the minds of the simple villagers that their 
fields and pastures were soon to become the site of a 
great and throbbing city. 

To Francis Cabot Lowell, more than to any other 
man, is New England indebted for the cotton industries 
which form such an important factor in its commer¬ 
cial prestige. With Patrick T. Jackson he, in 1813, 
purchased a water power in Waltham, and secured an 
act of incorporation. In this enterprise they were joined 
by Nathan Appleton. 

One of their first acts was to secure the services 
of Paul Moody, a clever mechanic of Amesbury. 

Mr. Lowell, having obtained all possible information 
regarding the power loom, then being introduced in Eng¬ 
land, built an improvement on that great invention, which 
was adopted in the Waltham Mill. Other improvements 
were made by Messrs. Lowell and Moody, and it was 
the latter who simplified the spinning process by spin¬ 
ning the filling directly on the cops without the process 
of winding. 

While devoting his inventive skill to the perfecting 
of machinery, Mr. Lowell gave considerable thought to 
the improvement of those he employed. He had seen 
the degraded state of the operatives in England, and his 
chief endeavor, next after the fitting of his mill, was 
to ensure such domestic comforts and restrictions as 
would warrant the parents of New England in letting 
their daughters enter his employment. He provided board¬ 
ing houses conducted by reputable women, furnished op¬ 
portunities for religious worship, and established rules 
which were a safeguard against the evils which assail the 
young who are beyond parental supervision. 

Mr. Lowell died in 1S17, at the early age of 42. 

The Waltham Mill was a success. Mr. Appleton 
thought there was no reason why they should not manu¬ 
facture and print calicoes in America. Mr. Jackson 



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LOWELL AND YICINITY ON TO-DAY. 


admitted that the operations were feasible; so the direc¬ 
tors of the Waltham company began to look for a new 
water power. They went to the Falls of the Souhegan, 
but did not find them satisfactory. 

It was Ezra Worthen of Salisbury who suggested 
to Mr. Moody that they buy the Pawtucket Canal, and 
acting upon his advice, Jackson and Appleton, with 
Kirk Boott, set about the purchase. They shrewdly 


their bargain, as well they might have been; and some¬ 
body made the remark that it was quite possible they 
would live to see the place contain twenty thousand 
inhabitants. 

The articles of association were drawn up on the 
ist of December, 1S21. They described the association as 
the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, with a capital 
stock of $600,000, divided into six hundred shares. The 



NEW CITY HALL. 


secured the services of Thomas Clark, the agent of the 
canal company, through whom they were enabled to 
secure stock and land. They did not pay any more than 
they could help, and land that was bought at $200 an 
acre was sold by them at from twelve cents to one dollar 
a foot, a year later. 

In November, 1821, Jackson, Appleton, Kirk Boott, 
J. W. Boott, Moody and Warren Dutton visited the site 
of the future Lowell. They were mightily pleased with 


amount of assessments was limited to $1,000, and Kirk 
Boott was engaged as treasurer and agent for five years 
at a salary of $3,000 a year. 

The Company was incorporated February 5, 1822^ 
and the tollowing directors were chosen : Warren Dutton, 
Patrick T. Jackson, Nathan Appleton, William Appleton, 
Israel Thorndike, Jr., John W. Boott; Kirk Boott, treas¬ 
urer and clerk. 

Everything was now in readiness for the new epoch. 



















DOWN 11 AND VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


7 


Kirk Boott was a man of decided and somewhat im¬ 
perious manner. He had fought with Wellington on the 
Peninsula, although a native of Boston, and his military 
training, while it fitted him for the work he was selected 
to accomplish, made him exacting and arbitrary. But he 
enjoyed the full confidence of his associates, and the 
moment he was invested with authority, that moment he 
touched the lever which set in motion the progress which 
developed a great city. 

The Merrimack Company paid $48,556 for the rights 
in the Pawtucket Canal and for the land along its banks. 

In the spring of 1822, work was begun. The canal 
was widened and deepened at a cost of $160,000; the 
foundation of the mills was laid ; a house for Mr. Boott 
was built as also were the boarding houses. 

The first wheel of the Merrimack Company was 
started on the 1st of September, 1S23, and three addi¬ 
tional mills were built. The first dividend of $100 a 
share was paid in 1S25. 

In 1S24, St. Anne’s church was built and Theodore 
Edson installed as pastor. 

In 1S25, five hundred dollars were appropriated for 
a library. The directors of the company never for a 
moment lost sight of the philanthropic design of Mr. 
Lowell, and the greatest care was taken to secure the 
comfort and happiness of the operatives. And they were 
very comfortable and very happy, despite the fact that 
they labored fourteen hours a day. 

In 1826 Mr. John D. Prince came from England 
and took charge of the calico printing, and it was his 
skill and executive ability that established the reputation 
and standing of the Merrimack prints, now so famous. 

Thus did the Merrimack Company become the parent 
of all the industries that followed it. It is now in its 
sixty-sixth year, and what a family has been gathered 
about it! What activity, what energy, and what enter¬ 
prise! “The speculation of the merchants of Boston,” 
as Chevalier called it, has been a profitable one; it has 
benefitted not only the inventors, but the thousands who 
have come to operate its machinery and conduct its 


rapidly increasing business. Prosperity and peace have 
been its privileges, and they have come with a quiet 
modesty which contrasts very strongly with the blai'e and 
rumpus of the booming so characteristic of some breezy 
sections. They were conservative men who worked such 
radical changes in the industrial character of New Eng 
land and of Lowell, and while the progress is still 
directed with a liberal resolve, the guiding principle is 
a conservative one. 

In October, 1S24, the Merrimack Company increased 
its capital to $[,200,000 and sold all its rights in the 
Pawtucket Canal, together with the land, to the Proprie¬ 
tors of the Locks and Canals, who were authorized to 
purchase, hold, lease or sell land and water power to 
the amount of $600,000. Mr. Boott was the first agent 
of the canal company. He was succeeded by Joseph 
Tilden and Patrick T. Jackson, and in 1S45 James B. 
Francis was appointed to that position. 

Mr. Francis came to this country from England when 
a lad of 18. He was the son of a civil engineer and 
was so fortunate as to find employment upon his arrival 
in America under George Whistler, the eminent engineer. 
When Whistler came to Lowell to take charge of the 
Machine Shop, Mr. Francis came with him and was, in 
1S37, appointed chief engineer for the canal company. 
In 1S46 he projected and built the Northern canal, a 
monument to hydraulic ingenuity and skill as imperish¬ 
able as the reputation of him who built it. He also 
designed the guard locks, which stand an impregnable 
barrier between the city and the flood. 

When we have said that the enterprise of Appleton, 
Boott and Jackson was followed by the speedy incorpora¬ 
tion of the Hamilton, the Appleton, the Lowell, the 
Middlesex, the Suffolk, the Tremont, the Lawrence, the 
Bleachery, the Boott and the Massachusetts companies in 
their order, we have said all that need be said in justi¬ 
fication of the wisdom that prompted the selection of the 
hamlet of East Chelmsford as the place of an industry 
which has enriched so many and kept so many more in 
the comforts of plenty. 


8 


LOWELL, AND 'VICINITY OF TO-DA V. 


LOWELL IN 1870. 


U NTIL 1S36 Lowell was still a town, but that year 
it acquired the right and title to municipal privi¬ 
leges. Its progress had been phenomenal. In ten years 
it developed beyond the expectations of its founders. Its 
mills were running at a profit, and its goods had ac¬ 
quired a reputation which made the demand greater than 
the capacity for production. 

The companies increased their works and the best 


cotton mills of Lowell suffered with the other industries 
of the country. The companies had scarcely recovered 
from the effects of the panic when the war broke out. 
With a singular lack of foresight, many of the compa¬ 
nies discharged their help and sold their cotton. When 
peace was declared business was resumed and has been 
continued with remarkable steadiness ever since. 

For purpose of comparison we will endeavor briefly 



MEMORIAL BUILDING. 


and the steadiest of New England’s men and women 
came here to earn a livelihood. It was these pioneers 
of the cotton industry that established the standard of 
intelligent labor in Lowell that not even the fell tide of 
immigration has been able to overthrow. There is 
nowhere in the United States a class of labor so intelli¬ 
gent and so reliable as that which toils in Lowell. 

All went swimmingly until the panic of 1S57. 


to show what Lowell was in 1S70. It had a population 
of 40,928. Its area was 383S acres and it had 50 miles 
of streets. It had 5421 houses and its total valuation was 
$25,922,488. It had 4,'JiH, of street railway tracks and its 
polls were S577. 

There were but fifteen manufacturing corporations in 
Lowell in 1S70. These were the Machine Shop, Wam- 
esit Steam Mill, Appleton, Boott, Hamilton, Lawrence, 


The 





















































LO W Eli ANF VICINITY OF TO-FAY. 


9 


Lowell, Massachusetts, Merrimack, Middlesex, Suffolk, 
Tremont, Belvidere Woolen Mills, Bleachery and the 
Lowell Hosiery. To these may be added the VVamesit 
Power Company, the Proprietors of the Locks and Canals, 
the Lowell Gas Light company, the Boston & Lowell, 
Lowell & Nashua and Lowell & Lawrence railroads, 


LOWELL 

HE Lowell of 1S93, with a population of 87,000, 
stands 37th in the list of important cities in the 
United States and its right to be known as the “Man¬ 
chester of America ” there is none to dispute. Its area 
has been five times increased by annexation, and it still 
remains the most condensed municipal community in New 
England. In 1S34, that quarter known as Belvidere was 
annexed from Tewksbury; in 1851, Centralville was an¬ 
nexed from Dracut; in 1874, Middlesex Village and a 
portion of Dracut were annexed. In 1S79, 395 acres 
were annexed from Dracut, and in 18SS 192 acres were 
annexed from Tewksbury. The annexation of 1S79 was 
largely one of sentiment. It was found alter the annex¬ 
ation of 1S74 that four families living in Dracut, quite 
near the Tyngsborough line, were deprived of school 
advantages, and that the children might receive an edu¬ 
cation, the city annexed the additional territory. 


The total 

area 

of I 

-owell is 

now 7932 

acres 

I2 loo square miles. 

Its congested ch 

aracter is 

shown 

the following 

table 

based 

upon the census of 

1SS5 ; 




POPULATION. 


ACRES. 

Worcester 

- 

- 

- 68,389 

- 

22,900 

Springfield 

- 

- 

37>575 

- 

20,817 

Haverhill 

- 

- 

- 21,795 

- 

kn 

To 

O 

O 

Gloucester 

- 

- 

21,703 

- 

14,000 

Fall River 

- 

- 

- 56,870 

- 

14.749 

Taunton 

- 

- 

- 23,674 

- 

33.200 

Holyoke 

- 

- 

- 27,895 

- 

10,038 

New Bedford - 

- 

- 33.393 

- 

11 113 


In 1S90, Lowell had 11,200 dwellings and its valu¬ 
ation was $62,046,790, an increase of $36,074,311 over 
that of 1S70. Its polls were 19,833, and the length oi 
its accepted streets 104 miles, 8miles of which aie 
paved with granite. It has of well built sewers 55 wo 'Mies. 
Its water works are the finest in New England, and its 
gas is the cheapest furnished by any city in the East. 

It has now forty incorporated companies engaged in 
manufactures ot various kinds and its lailioad facilities 


twenty-two in all. The total valuation of these corpora¬ 
tions was $12,262,219. 

There were published at that time two daily papers, 
the Citizen and the Courier, and the Vox Populi was issued 
semi-weekly. 


IN 1893. 

are of an exceptionally convenient character. The Lowell 
and Suburban Street Railway Company has over 52 miles 
of track and the company contemplates many changes in 
the immediate future that will greatly benefit the com- 
m unity. 

The total valuation of the incorporated companies is 
$26,224,115. 

There are employed in the mills and workshops 


31,120 persons, divided as follows: 

Textile ... - - 24,172 

Machinery - -- -- -- - 2,838 

Wood.*>050 

Leather -. 560 

Cartridges, Paper, Etc., Etc., - - - - 2,500 

31,120 


Fully 20,000 persons are employed in professions, do¬ 
mestic duties, trade and business other than manufactur¬ 
ing. And it will be readily admitted that Lowell has 
an industrial population. Almost fifty-three per cent, of 
the entire population is in active employment. 

The character of the population is made manifest in 
a most creditable manner in the statistics we give else¬ 
where of the savings banks, and to say nothing of the 
churches and theatres, which exercise a moral influence 
on the community. Here we have neither riots nor 
strikes. There is little or no vagabond element, nor is 
there any of those socialistic agitations which so fre¬ 
quently disturb the prosperity of manufacturing commu¬ 
nities. 

The 11,200 dwellings show that a large proportion 
of the wage earners are housed in their own homes, 
and in no other manufacturing community is the number 
of homes thus owned so great. 

The city enjoys an exceptional system of water works, 
introduced and perfected at a cost of over $4,000,000. 
Its police and fire departments are adequate; its schools 
numerous and well provided ; it has an efficient board 






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LOW .ELL NT) VICINITY OF TO-LAY. 


of health, and a free public library of 45,000 volumes. 
There was appropriated for the current municipal ex¬ 
penses of the year 1S93, $1,013,100. 

The clearing house returns show business transac¬ 
tions, aside from those of the large corporations, amount¬ 
ing to about $50,000,000 the past year. 

The number of industries has been greatly increased 
and diversified within the past ten years, and fortunes 


The city maintains the Rogers Fort Hill Park, ele¬ 
vated two hundred feet above the level of the city, two 
spacious commons and two small parks. It has just 
completed a magnificent boulevard, two miles long, on 
the northerly bank of the Merrimack River. This de¬ 
lightful driveway of our city will ere long, it is said, 
be connected by a bridge with the charming Town of 
Tyngsboro. 



CENTRAL STREET. 


have been made in the transfers of valuable real estate. 

There is now in course of construction a federal 
building for the accommodation of the post office, at a 
cost of $250,000. This building has been under way the 
past two years, and its completion has been long delayed. 
It has a commanding position, and will, when complete, 
be one of Lowell’s most substantial structures. 


That the spirit of enterprise is rife among our men 
of business may be seen in what is published elsewhere 
in this work, regarding street railways, the erection 
of buildings and the offers that are made of sites for new 
industries. This spirit is stimulated by the Board of 
Trade and the Master Builders’ exchange, and by various 
syndicates and individuals. 











































LOWELL AND VICINITY OF TO-BAY. 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 


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T HE new city hall is a magnificent structure of Con¬ 
way granite, three stories with a spacious basement, 
and decorated with a tower one hundred and eighty feet 
high. The building contains handsome chambers for the 
city council and school board, and offices for the heads 
of all departments. It was designed by Merrill & Cut¬ 
ler and its cost is about $350,000. 

The City Library in the Memorial Building is an 
ornate structure and in every way worthy its high memo¬ 
rial character. It is built of Conway granite and has a 
central tower. Here the library has ample and fire-proof 
accommodations. 

Both these buildings are located on a large triangu- 
lar lot at the junction of Merrimack and Moody streets 
Through the efforts of the lion. Chas. H. Allen, then 
representing the Seventh district, Congress in 1SS9 made 
an appropriation of $200,000 for a federal building to 
be erected in Lowell. The government was given the 
site at the corner of Appleton and Gorham streets, for¬ 
merly occupied by St. Peter’s church. Plans have been 
prepared and the contracts awarded, and work is now 
well under way. The building is classical in design and 
will be a decided ornament to the city. 


When the military companies were deprived by fire 
of their armory in Middle street, the state commissioners 
secured a lot of land on Westford street and erected 
thereon the present imposing structure. It has a castel¬ 
lated facade and is a model of military convenience. Its 
commanding position makes it a landmark for many sec¬ 
tions of the city. It was built at a cost of $90,000. 

The new High School Building, just completed on the 
site of the old building, is in every respect a model in¬ 
stitution, and architecturally a credit to both its designer 
and the city. 

The city owns many handsome school buildings, 
among which is the new Moody School Building in Bel- 
videre. 

The Central Fire Station in Palmer street is an un¬ 
usually fine building, and the stations in various parts of 
the citv are substantially built of brick and stone. 

The County Jail on Thorndike street is a large 
double-towered building of gray granite, conspicuous for 
its architectural grace as it is for its evident strength. 

The buildings at the city farm are plain and sub¬ 
stantial and are of quite recent construction. 


PRIVATE BUILDINGS. 


W ITHIN the last fifteen years there have been many 
changes for the better in the character and de¬ 
sign of our business blocks. The Masonic temple, built 
by the late Hocum Plosford, was the pioneer of private 
enterprise in that direction. The Five Cent Savings Bank 
is established in an elegant marble building. The Hil¬ 
dreth Building, in which the Post Office is located, and 
the Central Block, built by the Tyler heirs, are perhaps 
the two most completely equipped and largest business 
blocks in the city. The Runels Block, at the corner of 
Bridge and Merrimack Streets, and the Howe Block on 
the opposite corner rival these, both in their aichitectuial 
features and interior arrangements. 

The Odd Fellows Building is of modern design and 
development. The Hoyt and Shedd Building, the Apple- 
ton Bank Building, the First National Bank Building, 
the Old Lowell Bank Building, the Mansur Biock, the 
Ingham Block, the new Associate Building, F. G. Mitchell 

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& Co.’s Building, the Stott Block, the St Charles Hotel, 
the Merrimack House, the American House, the Richard¬ 
son Block, the St. Cloud Hotel, the Glidden Block, the 
Swan Building, the Spalding Building, the Fiske Build¬ 
ing, the Cook & Taylor Block, the Hosford Building, 
Wyman’s Exchange, are only a few of the many costly 
buildings devoted to business. 

There are some notable residences in Lowell. That 
of the late Gen. Butler in Belvidere is a substantial house 
such as was built by country gentlemen fifty years ago. 
The Nesmith Mansion, the Fellows House and the Hovey 
House are buildings of similar character. On the hill are 
the stone residences of the Hon. A. P. Bonney and 
Frederick Faulkner. The residences of the Hon. F. W. 
Howe, Thos. Carolin, A. G. Pollard, A. G. Cumnock, 
Mrs. T. G. Tweed, Dr. H. P. Jefferson, F. P. Putnam, 
the Hon. Charles A. Stott, Mrs. William A. Burke, W. 
S. Lamson, W. H. Anderson, and F. B. Shedd, are types 


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LOWELL, END VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


in the Belvidere district. In the Highlands, there is the 
Mansion of the Hon. VV. E. Livingstone, and a host of 
more modern dwellings of which those of Ex-Mayor 
Fifield, W. A. Ingham, the Hon. John J. Donovan, 
David Horne, C. W. Wilder, Col. J. W. Bennett, Mrs. 
Sidney Spalding, C. E. Adams and C. J. Glidden are 
characteristic specimens. 

In Ward Five there are many fine residences. Amongf 
them those of Airs. James Minter, Frederick Ayer, the 
Hon. C. H. Allen, Mrs Robert H. Butcher, Jacob Rogers, 


Sewall G. Alack, H. M. Thompson, A. A. Coburn, H. 
C. Perham and Thomas Stott. 

In Centralville there are the Parker, the Read and 
the Hildreth Alansions, the Barker residence and the resi¬ 
dences of Major E. T. Rowell, John H. McAlvin, Harry 
R. Raynes and Airs. A. H. Boardman. 

In every district and on every hand the houses, if 
not distinctive of great wealth, are eloquent of comfort 
and good taste. Ward Four people have been especially 
active in building operations the past few years. 



NEW NORTHERN DEPOT. 


WATERWAYS AND CANALS. 


L OWELL is bountifully supplied with water. The 
Merrimack River, which rises in the White Aloun- 
tains, also drains Lake Winnipesaukee, a body of water 
covering seventy square miles. This majestic stream flows 
in a sinuous course of nearly six miles through the city, 
and affords a force equivalent to 10,000 horse power. Its 
average width is 600 feet. 

The Concord River flows two and a quarter miles 
within the city boundaries, and joins the Merrimack at 
a point one mile and a fraction from the Dracut boun¬ 
dary line. Its average width is 200 feet, and it supplies 
500 hprse power. 


River Aleadow Brook is two and a quarter miles 
long and flows into the Concord River. It serves numer¬ 
ous industries with a 50 horse power. 

Stony Brook flows through Forge Village, Granite- 
ville and Chelmsford into the Merrimack a quarter of a 
mile above the city line. It furnishes horse power. 

Beaver Brook rises in Windham, and furnishes power 
for two mills in Dracut before it empties into the Alerri- 
mack at the city boundaries. 

The system of canals by which the waters of the 
Alerrimack are conveyed to the mills, is over five miles 
in length. 





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LOWELL AND VICINITY OE TO-DA Y. 


The following table shows the exact length of the 
waterways within the citv limits: 


Merrimack River 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

FEET. 

3'.250 

Concord River 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

12,750 

River Meadow Brook - 

- 


- 

- 

- 

1 2,000 

Beaver Brook 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

2,600 

Northern Canal 


> 

- 


- 

4,373 

Western Canal 


- 

- 


- 

4,472 

Tremont Canal 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

575 

Moody Street Feeder - 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

C 375 

Pawtucket Canal - 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

9 1S8 

Merrimack Canal - 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

2,586 

Hamilton Canal 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

1 770 

Eastern Canal 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

C 9 i 3 

Boott Penstock 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

235 

Total - 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

85,087 


Total length, sixteen miles six hundred and seven feet. 


There are three other brooks of variant character 
which are not included in the above list. 

The canals and rivers divide the city into seven 
islands, six of which are thickly populated. 

The Pawtucket Canal was originally built in 1796 
for the purpose of making the river navigable for boats, 
rafts and masts. In 1822 Nathan Appleton, Patrick T. 
Jackson, Kirk Boott and others bought the Pawtucket 
Canal and directed its waters to manufacturing purposes. 
They built the Pawtucket Dam, widened the canal to 
sixty feet and built the Merrimack Canal. In 1825 the 
Proprietors of the Locks and Canals were incorporated and 
secured by charter all rights in the waters of the Merri¬ 
mack for manufacturing purposes. Mr. James B. Francis 
after eleven years of service as engineer, was appointed 
agent in 1S45, and remained at the head of the company’s 
affairs until 1885, when he accepted the honor of con¬ 
sulting engineer and retired. He was succeeded by his 
son, Col. James Francis. 

The Merrimack Canal was completed in 1S23; the 
Western Canal in 1831, and the Eastern Canal in 1835. 
They were originally fed by the Pawtucket Canal. The 
first supplies power to the Machine Shop, Lowell, Merri¬ 
mack and Sherman’s Grist Mills; the second supplies 
power to the Tremont, Lawrence and Merrimack Mills, 
and the last supplies the Prescott, Massachusetts and Boott 
Mills. 

The Northern Canal was built in 1S47-4S, under the 
direction of Mr. James B. Francis. The massive parapet 
of masonry which extends along the south shore of the 
river, holds the waters of the canal fifty feet above the 


river bed, and is a triumph of engineering skill. It is 
connected with the Western, Merrimack and Eastern 
Canals. 

The Wamesit Canal was built in 1S46, and carries 
the waters of the Concord to a number of mills. It 
supplies 500 horse power. 

Where there is so much water in natural and arti¬ 
ficial channels, there must of necessity be many bridges. 

There are 209 bridges in Lowell, 100 of which are 
on public thoroughfares. 

The bridges crossing the Merrimack are substantial 
structures. The present Pawtucket bridge was built in 
1871 ; the Aiken Street Bridge in 1SS3 ; and the present 
Central Bridge in the same year. All three are iron 
bridges. 

According to the census of 1S90, Lowell had a 
population of 77,696. 

This is an increase of 13,589 over the census of 
1SS5, the figures of which were 64,107. 

Here is an increase of 21 per cent, in five years. 

Two years have elapsed since the census of 1890 was 
taken. Admitted that the percentage of the preceding 
five years was maintained in the two years which have 
elapsed since the last census was taken, and we should 
have in the vicinity of 90,000 people in our midst. 

Lowell has an area of only 7,932 acres. 

Worcester has an area of 22,809 acres and a pop- 
ulation by the last census of 84,655. 

If Lowell covered as much territory as Worcester 
does it would embrace the villages of North and West 
Chelmsford, Chelmsford Centre, North Billerica, the most 
populous section of Dracut and portions of Tyngsboro 
and Tewksbury. 

The business of the city represents in actual figures 
not less than 150,000 people. It is the market place 
of Billerica, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Westford, Dunstable, 
Tyngsboro, Littleton, Acton, a portion of Pelham, N. H., 
Dracut, Tewksbury and a large section of Andover. 

According to the census of 1SS0, 52 per cent, of 
the entire population was in active employment. The 
statistics showing the industry of the people are not yet 
tabulated for the returns of 1892, but it is safe to 
assume that the commendable percentage will not be 
lessened. 

It is interesting to see in what degree the people 
were employed under the census of 1SS5. 


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LOWELL AND VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


HE TRADERS NATIONAL BANK. —The new 
banking rooms of the Traders National Bank were 
occupied January 4, 1893. The entrance is of quartered 
oak, finely carved, and the floor of mosaic with the name 
of the bank in red letters. The spacious hanking room 


decorative work. The room is lighted by sixty-eight in¬ 
candescent lights arranged in groups of six along the 
beams of the ceiling. Each group is controlled by a 
separate switch so that any one or all parts of the room 
can be lighted at will. The President’s room is plainly 




TRADERS NATIONAL BANK. 


but substantially furnished and is situated conveniently for 
those who desire to consult him. The safe or vault is 
practically fire and burglar proof. The door weighs four 
tons. The position of the bank on a corner lot admits 
of it being well lighted. 


has a vestibule with mosaic floor and the finish is of Mexi¬ 
can mahogany. The counter is semi-circular in shape and 
is fitted with a grill of curiously wrought Japanese bronze. 
The ceiling is the finest piece of work of its kind in the 
city More than 5,000 distinct blocks were used in the 




























































The Traders National Bank 

OR LOWELL. 

IRcs. 8 anfc 10 ZlIMfcMesei Street. 


Capital, - $200,000. 


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DIRECTORS. 


JOHN C. BUKKE, 

MICHAEL CORBETT, 
SOLOMON K. DEXTER, 
CHAS. J. GLIDDEN, 
OTHELLO O. GREENWOOD, 


WILLIAM F. HILLS, 
EUGENE S. HYLAN, 
JAMES H. MILLS, 
ASA C. RUSSELL, 
ROBERT SIMPSON, 


JESSE N. TRULL. 


CHAS. J. GLIDDEN, President. 

EUGENE S. HYLAN, Vice-President. 

WM. F. HILLS, Cashier. 

CHAS. F. GRAHAM, 


CHAS. A. GRANT, Notary Public. 
FREDERIC A. HOLDEN, Teller. 
AMOS F. HILL, Assistant Teller. 
Clerk. 


David F. Frawley, Janitor. 


Hugh Green, Watchman. 



DISCOUNT DAILY. 

SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. 


Open same hours as above, and SATURDAY EVENINGS 7 to 9. Money deposited the first three days of any month 
will draw interest from the first day of that month at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, compounding twice each year. 
The amount of money that any one person may deposit is not limited except by special action of the Directors. For 
rules and regulations see Pass Books. 

SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT, $5 TO $25 PER ANNUM, ACCORDING TO SIZE. 


W. F. HILLS, Commissioner to Qualify Civil Officers. 


LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CALL No. 650. 





























APPLETON NATIONAL BANK 





















































































































































































































































































































































































































APPLETON NATIONAL BANK 


No. 6 Appleton Block, Central Street. 




Capital, 



$300,000. 



J. F. KIMBALL, President. E. K. PERLEY, Cashier. FRED H. ELA, Teller. 

GEORGE E. KING, M. T. PEIRCE, ERED N. MORSE, Clerks. 


H. H. WILDER, 

J. F. KIMBALL, 
ADDISON PUTNAM, 


DIRECTORS. 

WM. E. LIVINGSTON, 
FRED. A. BUTTRICK, 
GEO. O. WHITING, 


J. W. C. PICKERING, 
GEO. W. FIFIELD, 
HENRY M. KNOWLES. 


Annual Meeting, second Tuesday in January. Dividends, first Mondays of January, April, July and October. 

Discount, Mondays and Thursdays. 

DIVIDENDS EAUABLE IXT BOSTON COLLECTED WITHOUT CHARGE. 

"^The Prescott National Bank 

OH LOW ELL, 


IFlc. 28 Central Street, = * Opposite tUMbble Street. 


INCORPORATED 1850. 


REORGANIZED 1865. 


CAPITAL, - - $300,000. 


HAPGOOD WRIGHT, President. ALONZO A. COBURN, Vice-President. FRED BLANCHARD, Cashier. 

Ci.i.kks— GEO. R. CHANDLER, E. E. SAWYER, MARK A. ADAMS, HERBERT D. BURRAGE. 


DIRECTORS. 

GEORGE F. RICHARDSON, DANIEL GAGE, ALONZO A. COBURN, HAPGOOD WRIGHT, CHARLES A. STOTT, 
J. W. ABBOTT, CHARLES H. COBURN, W. A. INGHAM, J. A. BARTLETT. 

Annual Meeting, second Tuesday in January. Discount Days, Mondays and Thursdays. 

Dividends payable first of April and October. 


BAN PC FLOURS 8 to -4. 


CLOSED SATURDAYS AT 1 P. iVI. 




















ATHERTON MACHINE COMPANY. 


























TO WELT, A NI) VICINITY OF TO-FAY. 


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THE ATHERTON MACHINE COMPANY. 


A DMIRABLY situated is the plant of the Atherton 

Machine Corporation in the Town of Tewksbury 
adjoining the eastern boundary line of the City of 
Lowell. Here is a beautiful park, nearly level, of about 
seventy acres in extent, with macadamized roads and 
rolled walks; and on this territory is built one of the 
most complete works of the kind in the country. The 
Boston & Maine Railroad runs along the south side of 
the property and extensive side tracks reach past the 

principal buildings, with convenient loading places enabl¬ 
ing the company to handle freight in the easiest manner. 
Nearly in the centre of the park is located the main 

shop building, which with the ell attached is upwards 

of 400 feet long, 45 feet wide and three stories in 

height. This shop is fitted with modern tools and ap¬ 

pliances. In front of the main shop and to the right is 
the foundry building, about one hundred and fifty by 

seventy feet, which has been recently erected to take the 
place of one destroyed by fire. The present building is 
a model foundry and contains every necessary improve¬ 
ment of the day, such as iron truss roofs, hot air heating 
arrangement distributed by fan blower; fire proof cupalo 
house with hydraulic elevator for handling pig iron, latest 
patent core ovens and annealing furnaces, and a com¬ 
plete brass foundry. The windows in this building are 
twelve feet high of rough plate glass, and the same 

material is used in the metallic monitor sky light, diflus- 
ing a clear mellow light even in very cloudy days. 

Commodious outbuildings to contain boiler room, fire 
pumps, fettling shop, pattern storage and stock room are 
soon to be constructed of the same general style as the 
foundry building, to take the place of those now in use. 
The new office building in front of the rest facing the 
railroad, is noticed by every passer-by on the railway 
trains and always favorably commented upon. It has been 
the custom for some time to have the American ensign 
float to the breeze from the high tower on the main 
building during working hours. While the owners do not 
claim the flag for a trade mark they believe in distinc- 
tivelv “ American products,” in every sense of the word, 
and that manufacturers ot this country, especially those 
who expect a home market for their goods, should pur¬ 
chase their machinery here when its superior is not 
produced in any country of the world. 


While the products of the Atherton Machine Cor¬ 
poration have been sent to many countries, much the 
larger portion is in use in the United States—going to 
nearly every State of the Union where cotton goods are 
manufactured. The number of men employed is about 
three hundred, and business has been exceedingly good 
for a number of years as every “up to date” improve¬ 
ment has been adopted so soon as its merits were as¬ 
sured, and no expense has been spared to improve designs 
whenever possible. Only the higher class of cotton 
machinery is made. The principal output has been cotton 
opening and cleaning machinery, but of late a number of 
other kinds have been added such as automatic feeders, 
revolving flat carding engines, underflat cards, coder rail¬ 
ways and drawing frames, ring spinning frames and cloth 
inspecting machines. The new automatic feeders are a 
great improvement over those formerly in use and are 
probably the greatest labor saving machines ever intro¬ 
duced into a cotton mill, as when attached to an opener 
one man will do the work where ten men were formerlv 

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needed (that being the actual case in some of the Low¬ 
ell mills), and the cotton is opened and fed far better 
than is possible by hand Of the openers, breakers and 
lappers it is not necessary to speak as they are known 
as the standard everywhere. The revolving flat card is 
now being put upon the market and when known will 
no doubt take a very prominent place. The coder rail¬ 
way head is the strongest and most durable machine of 
the kind made, and entirely encased with iron doors with 
a new patent tell-tale on top showing the exact position 
of the evener belt without opening the doors. All the 
principal roller bearings on this machine are phosphor 
bronze. During the last three years nearly 7,000 deliveries 
of the new pattern coder drawing frame have been sold 
and are now running, and in every case where this 
machine has been on trial in comparison with others, 
built either in this country or abroad, it has invariably 
proved to be the most successful. The ring spinning 
frames are novel in design, of unusual strength and contain 
all the latest labor-saving devices. A number of orders 
for them have lately been received from several of the 
largest mills in the country. The cloth inspecting ma¬ 
chines are fully equal in design and finish to the other 
machinery made by the Company and meet with ready sale. 



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HAMILTON 1 MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 



















Hamilton Manufacturing; Co. 

Incorporated 1825. — Present Capital, $1,800,000. 


OFFICERS, CUITH DATE OF APPOINTMENT, 


TREASURERS. 

William Appleton.March 5, 1825 Ebsn Bacon,.June 27, 1867 

Ebenezer Appleton,.- Feb. 3, 1830 Samuel Bitchelder, ------ Nov. 19> 1869 

George W. Lyman, * June 1, 1833 George R. Chapman, - - - - . j an . 18, 1870 

Thomas G. Cary, ------ June 4, 1839 Jas. A. Dupee, 1870, - Died Oct. 18, 1886 

William B. Bacon, - July 22, 1859 James Longley, -.Oct. 19, 1886 

Arthur T. Lyman, ------ Dec. 19, 1860 Charles B. Amory,.Nov. 15, 1886 

Arthur L. Devens, ----- June 30, 1863 

SUPERINTENDENTS. 

Samuel Batchelder, ------- 1825 o. H. Moulton, -------- 1864 

John Avery, -------- 1831 J 

ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENTS OF PRINT WORKS. 

William Spencer, - -- -- -- - 1828 William Harley, - -- -- -- - 1866 

William Hunter, - . 1862 , Thomas Walsh,.- 1876 


ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF COTTON DEPARTMENT. 

Ferdinand Rodliff. 


DIRECTORS, 1893. 

THOMAS WIGGLESWORTH, JAMES LONGLEY, CHARLES HENRY PARKER, HENRY S. GREW, 

EDWARD I. BROWNE, J. HERBERT SAWYER, CHARLES B. AMORY. 

JAMES LONGLEY, President. CHARLES B. AMORY, Treasurer. FREDERICK W. WAY, Clerk. 

Annual meeting, second Thursday in July. 



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No. Mills, ------ 6 and Print Works 

Spindles, - - 109,816 

Looms, - ----- 3,035 

Females employed, - - - - - 1,200 

Males employed, ------- 800. 

Yards made per week, ----- 730,000 

Pounds Cotton used per week, - 180,000 

Yards Dyed and Printed per week, - - - 720,000 

Kind of goods made—Flannels, Prints, Ticks, Stripes, 

Drills and Shirtings, 5 to 37. 

Tons Coal per year, ------- 11,000 

Bushels Charcoal per year, - - - - 300 

Cords Wood per year, - - 200 

Gallons Oil per year, - - 11,000 

Pounds Starch per year, ------ 450,000 

Drugs and Dye Stubs, amount per year, - - * 250,000 


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Ten turbine and forty-one engines of 2600 horse-power, including small engines used for printing machines, furnish the 
motive power of this Company. The plant includes about seven and one-half acres of land. 
















MASSACHUSETTS COTTON MILLS, 







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OFFICERS. . . . 


VV. S. SOUTHWORTH, Agent. 


J. C. WADLEIGh, Supt. 

E. G. CHILDS, Asst. Supt. 



DAVID HEALY, Jr., Paymaster. 


MASSACHUSETTS 

COTTON MILLS 

Located at Junction of Merrimack and Concord Rivers, between Bridge and Merrimack Streets. 

INCORPORATED 1839- 


gjj>A> CAPITAL, = $1,800,000 » 


CHARLES L. LOVERING, TREASURER, BOSTON. 

SMITH, HOGG & GARDNER, SELLING AGENTS, 

66 Chauncy Street, Boston, and 115 and 117 Worth Street, New York. 



SPINDLES, ------ 127,000 

LOOMS, ------ 4,061 

FEMALES EMPLOYED, = 1,300 

HALES EHPLOYED, - 600 

YARDS MADE PER WEEK, = 1,000,000 

COTTON CONSUMED PER WEEK, pounds, - 300,000 

FLOOR AREA OF MILLS, 19 acres 


POWER—3,900 horse-power of Water Wheels ; 3,000 of Engines. 

KINDS OF GOODS MADE-Sheetings, Shirtings, Drillings, Canton 
Flannels and Denims. 















































LOWELL AND -VICINITY ON TO-DAY. 


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REMONT AND SUFFOLK MILLS. —The Suffolk 
Manufacturing Company was incorporated January 
17, 1831, with a capital of $600,000, and the Proprietors 
of Tremont Mills March 19, the same year, with a 
capital of $^oo,ooo. The mills of the former were 
located on the west side of Suffolk Street, and those 
for the latter on the east side. The two corporations 
thus contiguously situated were nearly as closely con¬ 
nected in management after they became fairly started, 
the goods manufactured by both being substantially the 
same. John W. Boott was the first treasurer of the 
Suffolk, and William Appleton for the Tremont. After 
the first year the same treasurer was employed for both 
companies until 1S71, when they consolidated, with a 
capital of $1,200,000, under the name of the Tremont 


The goods at present manufactured comprise all kinds 
of fancy flannel shirtings, lawn tennis and fancy suitings, 
flannel blankets for which there is a steady demand for 
summer use, and very heavy goods napped on both sides 
used as sub-table-cloths for dining tables. The fancy 
designs made are almost infinite in variety, the delicate 
and excpiisite patterns being made of colors dyed in the 
yarn, and not printed, to provide which there is a large 
dye works connected with the plant which gives employ¬ 
ment to a large number. 

The agents for the original Suffolk Manufacturing 
Company were appointed as follows: 

Robert Means ... June 13, 1S31. 

John Wright - - December 20, 1S42. 

Thomas S. Shaw - - January 1, 1S6S. 




and Suffolk Mills. Up to this time both companies 
manufactured fine cottons. About 1S74 the manufacture 
of cotton flannels was begun in a small way and has 
steadily increased until the present time, and to-day 
napped goods are manufactured exclusively, the company 
being the largest concern in the country producing this 
class of fabrics. The producing force at present consists 
of 117,000 spindles, 3,800 looms, and about 2,000 
employes. The company long since outgrew the water 
power at its disposal, and about half the power now is 
produced by steam, the total capacity being about 3,000 
horse power. 


Of the Tremont Company: 


Israel Whitney 

- 

- July 

28, 

1 S3 1 . 

John Aiken - 

- 

- January 

3 U 

1834- 

Charles L. Tilden 

- 

June 

28, 

1 S3 7. 

Charles F. Battles 

- 

- October 

16, 

1858. 

Thomas S. Shaw, 

- 

March 

2 3 » 

1S70. 


Mr. Shaw continued as agent for the consolidated 
company until superseded by Edward W. Thomas, the 
present incumbent. 

The present directors are Arthur T. Lyman, Fred¬ 
erick F. Ayer, Frederick Ayer, James C. Ayer, Jacob 
Rogers, James W. Clark, and Harrison Gardner. 

The annual meeting occurs the last Tuesday in March. 













Xr emont an d Suffolk /V\ ills. 


. . Suffolk Manufacturing Company, incorporated Jan. 17th, 1831. . . 


Proprietors Tremont and Suffolk Hills, incorporated Mar. 19th, 1831. 


Co^ s 


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PRESENT CAPITAL, = $1,500,000. 


officers, with date of appoihtjvieht. 

Treasurers Suffolk Manufacturing Company. 


John \V. Boott, 
Henry Hall, 
Henry Y. Ward, 


Feb. 17, 1831 Walter Hastings, 

April 2, 1832 William A. Burke, 

April 7, 1859 James C. Ayer, 


July 10, 1865 
Feb. 4, 1868 
Aug. 10, 1870 


Treasurers Proprietors of the Tremont Hills. 


William Appleton, 
Henry Hall, 

Henry V. Ward, - 


April 9, 1831 Walter Hastings, 

April 3, 1832 William A. Burke, 

April 7, 1857 J James C. Ayer, 


July 10, 1865 
Feb. 4, 1868 
Aug. 10, 1870 


Treasurers Tremont and Suffolk Mills. 


James C. Ayer, ------ Aug. 19, 1871 Alphonso S. Covel, - January, 1887 

John C. Birdseye, ----- March 26, 1872 


Robert Means, 
John Wright, 


Agents Suffolk Manufacturing Company. 


June 13, 1831 
Dec. 20, 1842 


Thomas S. Shaw, - 


June 1, 1868 


Agents Proprietors of the Tremont Mills. 


Israel Whitney, 
John Aiken, 
Charles L. Tilden, 


Thomas S. Shaw, 


July 28, 1831 
Jan. 31, 1834 
June 28, 1837 


Charles F. Battles, 
Thomas S. Shaw, 


Agents Tremont and Suffolk Mills. 


Aug. 12, 1871 | Edward AY. Thomas, 

DIRECTORS, 1893. 


Oct. 16, 1858 
March 23, 1870 


June 22, 1887 


ARTHUR T. LYMAN, 


FREDERICK F. AYER, FREDERICK AYER, JAS. C. AYER, JACOB ROGERS, HARRISON GARDNER. 

ANNUAL MEETING”LAST TUESDAY IN rtARCH. 


No. of Mills,. o 

Spindles, - • 118,000 

Looms, - 4 >° 5 ° 

Females Employed, - * 1,600 

Males Employed, - - 6°° 

Yards made per week, - * 700,000 

Pounds Cotton used per week, . 240,000 


Kind of goods made: Cotton Flannels, Drillings, Dress Goods, Fancy Shirtings 
Tons Coal per year, -------- 9,000 

Gallons Oil per year, -------- 12,000 

Pounds Starch per year, -------- 150,000 

W'ater Wheels, - 11 Turbines; 4 8 ft. 4 in., 1 9 ft., and 6 4 ft. 4 in. diameter 
Steam Power, ------ 7 engines, 2too horse power 


The mills and storehouses of the Company are located on either side of the Western Canal, northerly of the Northern Canal to Hall Street, with a store¬ 
house between Hanover and Tremont Streets, southerly of the line of the Northern Canal. The boarding houses are situated between Tremont and Tilden 
Streets, on the Tremont side, and between Cabot Street and the mills on the Suffolk side. The Company is taxed on about ten and one-half acres of land. 



























APPLETON MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 





























APPLETON 


COiTPANY. 



PRESENT CAPITAL, = = = $600,000. 


OFFICERS, WITH DATE OF APPOINTMENT. 


Treasurers. 


William Appleton, 

1828 

Patrick T. Jackson, 

1829 

George W. Lyman, 

1832 

Thomas G. Carey, 

1841 

William B. Bacon, 

1859 

Arthur T. Lyman, 

1861 

Arthur L. Devens, 

1863 

John A. Burnham, 

1867 

George Motley, .... 

1867 

James A. Dupee, 1874. . . Died Oct. 18, 1886 

Louis Robeson, .... 

1886 

Superintendents. 


John Avery, .... 

1828 

George Motley, 

1831 

J. H. Sawyer, .... 

1867 

Daniel Wright, .... 

1881 

Wm. H. McDavitt, 

1887 

Agent. 


C. H. Richardson, 

Nov., 1888 





Capital (600 shares; par $1000), . . $600,000 

No. Mills, ..... 6 

Spindles, . . . . . 50,776 

Looms,. ..... 1,610 

Females Employed, .... 660 

Males Employed, .... 420 

Yards made per week, .... 313,000 

Pounds Cotton used per week, . . . 122,000 

Kind of Goods made—Sheetings, Shirtings, Drillings, Flan¬ 
nelettes, Dress Goods and Tickings. 

Tons Coal per year, .... 3,650 

Gallons Oil per year, .... 7,200 

Pounds Starch per year, . . . 140,000 

Water Wheels, .... 5 Turbines 


Steam Power, . . 2 Engines, 1000 horse power 


Directors, 1893. 


EDWARD /. BROWNE, S. C. DANA, HENRY C. HOWE, WM. S. APPLETON, 

J. HERBERT SAWYER, LOUIS ROBESON, ARTHUR G. POLLARD. 


WM. S. APPLETON, President. LOUIS ROBESON, Treasurer. DANIEL L. PRENDERGAST, Clerk. 


ANNUAL MEETING-FIRST WEDNESDAY IN JANUARY. 


The Mills are located between the Hamilton and the Pawtucket Canals, bounded on the east by the property of the Hamilton Company, and on the west 
by that of the Lowell Machine Shop, No. 5 Mill, being between Middlesex and Jackson Streets, westerly of the boarding houses, which extend westerly from 
the Hamilton Company’s blocks, between Middlesex and Jackson Streets. The Mills are operated by seven turbine wheels and three steam engines of 1550 
horse power. 







































28 


LOWFII ANJJ VICINITY of to-fan. 


T he BOOTT COTTON MILLS, named for Kirk 
Boott, the first treasurer of the Merrimack Com¬ 
pany, and prominently identified with the early history 
of our city, date their act of incorporation March 27, 
1835. Abbott Lawrence, Nathan Lawrence and John A. 
Lowell — all well-known names—were specially designated 
in the act of incorporation, and the original capital was 
$1,000,000. In 1S37 l ^ ie capital was increased to 
$1,200,000, at which figures it has since remained. 

The mills, which have been extensively altered and 


The goods manufactured are shirtings, sheetings and 
printing cloths, and, as indicating the increase in the 
capacity of the mills in halt a century, the product, 
which in 1S37 was 3,796,000 y ards was b in lSS 9> 
40.300,000 yards. 

In the manufacture of the enormous output last 
named, which was at the rate of 775 ’°°° y arc ^ s P er 
week, there were used 245,000 pounds of cotton weekly, 
or 12,740,000 pounds annually, an average ot over 
40,833 pounds every working day. 



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enlarged since 1S61, rank very high among manufactur¬ 
ing companies. They are situated along the Merrimack 
River, between Bridge Street on the east and the Merri¬ 
mack Company on the west. 

The boarding houses and other buildings occupy the 
territory east of John Street, bounded by Bridge, Amory 
and French Streets; and west of John Street, bounded 
by Paige, Amory and Kirk Streets, with the exception 
of a dwelling house and lot on the latter street. 


The number of spindles is 148,412, and of looms, 
4,000, giving employment to 1,687 females and 523 males. 

Of supplies, 6,000 tons of coal, Soo bushels of char¬ 
coal, 14,500 gallons of oil, and 650,000 pounds of starch 
are used annually. 

Power is furnished by nine turbine wheels, and two 
steam engines of 2,200 horse power. 

The weekly pay-roll is $12,500, and the taxes in 
1SS9 were $29,964.04. 












Incorporated 1835-. 
Began Work 1836. 


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Present Capital, 


$ 1 , 200,000 




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OFFICERS, WITH DATE OF APPOINTMENT. 

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Capital (1200 shares; par $100) 

$1,200,000 

^Treasurers. 


No. Mills,. 

7 



Spindles, ...... 

151,292 

John Amory Lowell,. 

1835 

Looms, ...... 

4,200 

J. Pickering Putnam,. 

1S48 

Females Employed, .... 

0 

0 

L/1 

T. Jefferson Coolidge,. 

1858 

Males Employed, .... 

478 

Richard D. Rogers.. 

1S65 

Yards made per week, .... 

. 800,000 

Augustus Lowell. 

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Pounds Cotton used per week, 

275,000 



Kinds of Goods made: 


Eliot C. Clarke,. 

1886 

Sheetings, Shirtings, Printing 

Cloth—14 to 60 



Tons Coal per year, . . , . 

8,000 

Hoents. 


Gallons Oil per year, .... 

12,000 



Pounds Starch per year, 

300,000 

Benjamin F. French,. 

1836 

Water Wheels: 1 6 ft. 8 in., and 8 6 ft. 


Linus Child,. 

1845 

Steam Power, " . . . 4 engines, 2000 horse power 

William A. Burke,. 

1862 



Alexander G. Cumnock,. 

1868 

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directors, 

1803 . 


L S IT S LOW EL I „ President. ELIOT C. 

CLARKE, Treasurer. 

C. WILLIAM LOR 1 NG, ARTHUR T. LYS 

EDWARD W. HOOPER, 

AUGUSTUS FLAC 

JG, EDWARD 1 . BROWNE. 



ELIOT C. CLARKE, Treasurer, Boston. 


ANNUAL MEETING-LAST WEEK IN MAY. 

A. G. CUMNOCK, Agent. 


VICTOR I. CUMNOCK, Superintendent. 


The Mills have been extensively altered and enlarged and now rank high among manufacturing companies. They are situated along the Merrimack 
River between Bridge Street on the east and the Merrimack Company on the west. 

’ The boarding houses and other buildings occupy the territory east of John Street, bounded by Amory, Bridge and French Streets; and west of John 
Street, bounded by Paige, Amory and Kirk Streets, with the exception of a dwelling house and lot on the latter street. The motive power is supplied by nine 
turbines and two steam engines of 2000 horse power. 
























































THE 





CAPITAL, = = = = = $400,000 


OFFICERS, WITH DATE OF APPOINTHENT. 


treasurers. 

John Clark, - - - - 

1833 

James C. Dunn, 

- 

1834 

Charles T. Appleton, 

- 

1835 

Samuel G. Snelling, 

- 

1859 

Percival Lowell, 

- 

1886 

Eliot C. Clarke, 

- 

1889 


BcjeiltS. 


Jonathan Derby, 

- 

- 

1833 

Joseph Hoyt, 

- 

- 

1834 

Charles T. Appleton, 

- 

- 

1835 

Charles A. Babcock, 

- 

- 

1849 

F. P. Appleton, 

- 

- 

1855 

Fordyce Coburn, 

- 

- 

1880 

F. P. Appleton, 

- 

- 

1882 

James N. Bourne, - 

- 

- 

1886 


Bivectors, IS93. 


AUGUSTUS LOWELL, HARRISON GARDNER, 


GEO. F. RICHARDSON, FRANCIS C. GRAY, ELIOT C. CLARKE. 


ANNUAL MEETING THIRD MONDA V IN JUL V. 
























3 2 


DO WEED AND NIC I NIT Y OF TO-DAY. 


There were at that time 28,517 males in Lowell and 
35,59° females. The following were the occupations: 


Government -------- 299 

Professions -------- 911 

Domestic - ------ 14,920 

Personal service. 840 

Trade.2,941 

Transportation.1,100 

Agriculture - -. 45S 

Laborers -------- 1,290 

Apprentices. 135 

Children at work ...... 250 

Manufacturing ------- 21,454 


44,598 

To these may be added: 


Scholars -------- 9,568 

Students 183 

Retired - - - - - - - - 715 

Non-productive. 593 

Dependents. 263 

At home -------- 7,424 

Not given. 703 


19,449 

And here is a significant item. In a population of 
64,000 there were only returned as out of employment 
for 12 months 40 people. 

It may not be without interest to know the nativity 
of the population of Lowell. According to the census 
of 1SS5 the proportions are as follows: 

Massachusetts ------- 25,631 

Other States in New England - 10,372 


Other States ------- 2,221 

Ireland ----- - 11,681 

Canada (French) .... . 6,438 

Canada (English - - - .... 1,380 

England - - 3 » 5 12 

Scotland ... ■ 785 

Nova Scotia - - - - - - 621 

Prince Edward’s Island ----- 135 

New Brunswick ----- - 516 

Germany - - - - - - - 7 ° 

Sweden - ------ 275 

Portugal . - - - - 43 

Other Countries ------- 427 


Since 1SS5 the number of French-Canadians and of 
Swedes has largely increased. They form a thrifty, in¬ 
dustrious and peaceable portion of the community. 

From recent statistics we find the following condi¬ 
tional division of labor existing at the present time: 


Manufacturers.24,172 

Machinists ------ - - 2,838 

Wood.1,050 

Leather ------ - - 5 ^° 

Cartridges, etc., etc. -.2,500 

Professions -------- 1,200 

Trade.3,760 

Domestic ... - ... 16,500 

Government -------- 432 

Transportation ------- 2.340 

Agriculture -------- 480 

Laborers -------- 1,600 


57-432 


LABOR. 


W HEN the Merrimack Mills were first established, 
the operatives were drawn from the towns and 
villages of New England. They were sober, industrious 
and reliable people. The building of the mills attracted 
the immigrant labor. It was also of a sober and reli¬ 
able quality, for fares were high in those days and it 
was only those who were seeking homes that came to 
the new town of Lowell. This foreign labor mingled 
with the native element and imbibed the best of its many 
admirable qualities. 

As the industries developed, there was a demand for 


men skilled in the art of calico printing, and a superior 
class of workmen accordingly came from England ancf 
from other countries to add their intelligent influence to 
the moral progress of the community. 

The corporations were under necessity to provide 
food and shelter for those they employed. They adopted 
Mr. Lowell’s plan, so effectively instituted at Waltham, 
and built boarding and tenement houses. Over these a 
rigid supervision was maintained. The food in the former 
was required to be of a certain standard. The rules 
governing the conduct of those who lived in the board- 











Lawrence Manufacturing Company 

Ifncouporateb 1831. present Capital, $1,500,000. 


Officers, with Date of Appointment. 


treasurers. 


William Appleton, - 

- 

- 

1831 

Henry Hall, 

- 

- 

1832 

Henry V. Ward, 

- 

- 

1857 

T. Jefferson Coolidge, 

* 

- 

1868 

Lucius M. Sargent, 

- 

- 

1880 


Hcjents. 


William Austin, 

* 

1830 

John Aiken, 

. 

1837 

William S. Southworth, 

- 

1849 

William F. Salmon, 

- 

1865 

Daniel Hussey, 

- 

1869 

John Kilburn, 

- 

1878 


Cotton Cloth of various grades was for a long series of years the only article of manufacture. In 1864 the manufacture of cotton hosiery for women 
was begun and that class of goods has since been an important product of the Company. Knitted underclothing is also an important branch of their business. 
The mills are situated on the Merrimack River, and extend from the Merrimack Corporation to Aiken Street Bridge, and are run by eleven turbines, and five 
steam engines. The boarding houses are located on either side of the Western Canal, on the west side being enclosed by Suffolk, Hall, Cabot and Perkins 
Streets, anti east of the canal extending from the mill-yard to Hall Street, between the Western Canal and Tilden Street. 


Merrimack Manufacturing Co., 


IN COUPOli ATE I) 1822. 


Present Capital, = $2,500,000 


c - — 


HOWARD STOCKTON, Treasurer. 


m 


JOHN J. HART, Supt. Print Works. 
JOHN W. PEAD, Supt. of Mills. 


JOSEPH S. LUDLAM, Agent. 



The mills and storehouses of this Company are located on the bank of the Merrimack River, extending from the waste- 
wav separating their property from that of the Boott Cotton Mills on the east to Tilden Street on the west—the Print Works 
extending from the river, between Prince and Tilden Streets, to the foot of Colburn Street. The boarding houses are situated 
between Moody Street and the mills, on Dutton, Prince, Worthen and Colburn Streets. 


I 















































34 


I OWE FI e nij vicinity of to-fey. 


ing and tenement houses were rather strict; but they 

were wholesome; and although they have long since 

lapsed, their effect is still seen when the bells ring the 
curfew at nine o’clock every night. 

There is still much of the native element employed 
in the mills, and the children of the immigrants who 

came here in the early days form an exceptionally in¬ 

telligent portion of the community. 

There are many French-Canadians employed in the 
mills. They are very desirable operatives ; they are steady, 
sober and industrious. They are thrifty and are more 
permanent than they used to be. Many of them now 
own their homes, and their children fill positions where 
education is a prerequisite to success. 

There have never been any serious strikes in Lowell. 
The only labor troubles it has ever experienced have 
arisen from isolated and petty differences which have 
been amicably settled without serious loss to employer or 
employe. Our corporations have always shown a liberal 
disposition to treat with their employes, and labor agita¬ 
tors of the blatant style have ever found Lowell to be 
a poor place for their disturbing purposes. 


The foreign element is chiefly represented by the 
French Canadians, the British, the Irish and the Swedes. 
Their chief ambition seems to be to own their homes, 
and the outlying districts are thickly settled with the 
people of their class. They can buy comfortable homes 
for from $1,000 to $1,500, and when they are so 
established they are not disposed to find fault with the 
means by which they enjoy such independence. 

The savings banks contain their earnings, and the 
fact that many of the influential men in the community 
were themselves at one time operatives in the mills, has 
an encouraging effect upon those who are now employed 
in their places. 

There are no socialistic clubs or organizations in 
Lowell. Labor unions there are, of sparse membership, 
but thev do not seem to be in favor with the operative 
class. There is nowhere in the United States a more 
thrifty, intelligent and desirable class of help than can 
be found in Lowell, and the attendance at the free even- 
ins' schools is a commendable evidence of the ambition 

o 

which animates the young who are compelled by force 
of circumstances to earn their livelihood in our mills. 


COST OF LIVING. 


T HE cost of living in Lowell is lower than it is in 
any other city of its size and character in the 
United States. This is due to what is known as “ the 
Lowell system.” When Francis C. Lowell established 
the cotton mills at Waltham, he made the shelter and 
food of the employes his especial care. He built sub¬ 
stantial brick tenement and boarding houses and fixed the 
rentals and the price of board at low and stable figures. 

When Jackson and Boott built the Merrimack mills 
they adopted the Lowell system. So, too, did the other 
corporations that followed. That system is still preserved, 
and when it is abandoned Lowell wfill lose one of its 
most distinctive features and one which gives it an ad¬ 
vantage not enjoyed by other manufacturing communities. 

There are no corporation stores, but the companies 
pay the boarding house keepers a small sum for every 
boarder. They let the boarding houses at extremely low 
figures and enforce a rule of conduct which, if not severe, 
is nevertheless wholesome. 


Of the corporations, nine own tenement property 
valued at from $50,000 to $300,000 each. The average 
rent for a tenement of eight rooms is seven dollars a 
month; nine rooms rent for eight dollars. These figures 
are the standard. 

Tenements of four, five or six rooms can be procured 
anywhere in the city for from six to eight dollars a 
month ; and very superior tenements, in the most desir¬ 
able sections, are rented for ten and twelve dollars a 
month. There are tenements cheaper than those owned 
by the corporations, but they are very few and undesir¬ 
able and their number is growing less. 

It costs a man two dollars and ninety cents to board 
a week in a corporation boarding house; a woman can 
board for two dollars and twenty-five cents. The food 
is substantial and of excellent quality. Outside, the price 
of board in many places is three dollars for men and 
two dollars and fifty cents for women. These figures 
include food and lodging. A weaver earning ten dollars 


Middlesex Company. 

<q --— 

INCORPORATED 1830. 



PRESENT CAPITAL, = = = = = $750,000. 

o) © q) wW (*)(*)(*)(*) © © ® - ©~©“® ©~®~© 


—- rx —— DIRECTORS, 1893. -: - ^ - ■- 

ARTHUR T. LYMAN, ROBERT H. GARDINER, M. R. WENDELL, AUGUSTUS LOWELL, GEO. Z. SILSBEE, 

CHARLES P. CURTIS, President. O. H. PERRY, Treasurer. 


The goods manufactured are indigo blue coatings, cassimeres, police, yacht and cadet cloths, ladies’ sackings and beavers. 
Twenty thousand pounds of clean wool are consumed per week, and 12,500 6-4 yards of cloth made. The mills are located at the 
junction of the Pawtucket Canal and Concord River, with Warren Street as the southwesterly boundary line. The Company owns 
nearly seven and a half acres of land. 



ON MERRIMACK RIVER. 


Incorporated 1792. Present Capital, $600,000. 


OFFICERS, WITH DATE OF APPOINTMENT. 


TREASURERS. 

Joseph Cutler, - - - 1792 

W. W. Prout, - - 1804 

Samuel Cutler, - - 1809 

Samuel Tenney, - - 1817 

TREASURERS AND AGENTS. 

From 1702 to 1822 there was no Agent. 

Kirk Boott, - - - - 1822 

Joseph Tilden, - - - 1837 

TREASURERS. 

P. T. Jackson, - - - 1838 

John T. Morse, - - - 1845 


SPECIAL AGENTS. 

William Boott, - - - 1838 

James B. Francis, - - 1845 

James Francis, - - - 1885 

ENGINEERS. 

Paul Moody, - - - 1824 

Joel Lewis, - - - - 1826 

George W. Whistler, - 1834 

James B. Francis, - - 1837 

James Francis, - - - 1885 

CONSULTING ENGINEERS. 

James B. Francis, 1885 to 1892 
Hiram F. Mills, - - - 1893 


DIRECTORS, 1893. 


LUCIUS M. SARGENT, President. 
HOWARD STOCKTON, 
LOUIS ROBESON, 

O. II. PERRY, 

ELIOT C. Cl.ARKE, 


JOHN T. MORSE, Treasurer. 
CHARLES B. AMORY, 
ARTHUR T. LYMAN, 
ALPHONSO S. COVEL, 
CHAS. L. LOVERING, 


ROBERT II. STEVENSON. 


ANNUAL MEETING-THIRD TUESDAY OF SEPTEHBER. 


The Proprietors of Locks and Canals have since 1845, confined themselves to the management and improvement of the water-power, and their remain¬ 
ing real estate (which exceeds 137 acres), under the control of aboard of directors, consisting of the treasurers of the corporations to whom they lease water¬ 
power. Their office is at No. 22 Broadway, near Dutton Street. Employ on an average from 50 to 60 men. Pay every Wednesday. 

1 ' Kyanizing Works, for the prevention of decay of wood in exposed places, are owned and have been carried on by the Proprietors of the Locks and 

Canals since 1848. 



































36 LOWELL AND VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


a week can live for one hundred and seventeen dollars 
a year and live well. It is little wonder then, that our 
savings banks contain more money than there is repre¬ 
sented in the united capital of the great corporations. 

We have here, in Lowell, a large market for the 
surrounding country. Vegetables are cheap, and the 
absence of high rents enable our dealers to offer their 
merchandise at prices all the way from twenty-five to 
two per cent, less than the prices charged in Boston and 
elsewhere. 


city in Massachusetts. The wages may not quite touch 
the figures they do in other places; but the difference is 
more than compensated for in the reduced cost of 
living. 

It has been predicted that some time in the future 
the corporations will be obliged to abandon their board¬ 
ing houses and convert the property to manufacturing 
purposes. But there is nothing to warrant such a pre¬ 
diction. 

An agent of one of our mills, desiring to extend his 



LOWELL MACHINE SHOP. 

L.OWHLL MASS. 

18 9 3c. 


A man earning twelve dollars a week, and paying 
one hundred and fifty-six dollars for his board and 
lodgings for a year, can be well supplied with clothing, 
boots and underwear for fifty dollars. He can live in 
Lowell, be well dressed and comfortable, for two hun¬ 
dred dollars a year. If he is frugal he can save three 
hundred dollars a year, and many men do. 

But the corporations aside, we have cheaper rents 
and cheaper board than can be obtained in any other 


works, concluded to build upon the site of his tenements. 
But when he had reckoned the consequences he changed 
his plan and the tenements remained. The abandonment 
of the Lowell system means an increase in the price of 
board, and that, quite naturally, would excite a demand 
for larger wages. With that demand would come the 
opportunity the labor agitators have so long been looking 
for in this conservatively progressive and peaceful com¬ 
munity. 





K ITSON j MA CHINE * CO., 


LOWELL, MASS. 


MANUFACTURERS OF 


COTTON FEEDERS, OPENERS AND LAPPERS. 

WOOL WASHERS, DRYERS AND CARBONIZING PLANTS. 







































































































































Hood’s Sarsaparilla Laboratory 

LOWELL, MASS. 

C. I. HOOD & CO, - - PROPRIETORS. 



The above engraving shows the Main Laboratory, erected in 1883 and enlarged in 1886; Annex, 
erected in 1892; and New Extension, erected in 1893. 

Total length of Buildings, 590 feet; average width, 60 feet. Total floor area, 150,000 square feet. 


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Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 
Hood’s Pills. 

Hood’s Tooth Pouuder. 


Hood’s Olive Ointment. 

TusSano, for Coughs and Colds. 
TusSano Pain«I^illing Plaster. 

















































































































DOW ELD AND VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


39 


HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA LABORATORY. 


T HE history of the marvellous growth of Hood’s Sarsa¬ 
parilla is wonderful even in this age of wonderful 
achievements. The business, which now extends to every 
part of the United States and to many loreign countries, 
and which in magnitude is one of the largest factors in 
the immense trade of Lowell, was inaugurated in 1S76 by 
Mr. Charles I. Hood, a prominent pharmacist of Low¬ 
ell, who began the manufacture of Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
on a modest scale in his store, corner of Merrimack and 
Central Streets. So remarkable were the cures effected by 
this medicine that it soon required additional space and 
facilities to supply the demand, and in 1S7S an entire 
floor of a business block was leased and the Sarsaparilla 
business was carried on there on what was deemed an 
extensive scale. So rapidly, however, did the medicine 
become popular, that in 1S79 still larger quarters were 
required and a lease for five years was taken of a three 
story modern building on Church Street. Within three 
years, even these premises proved too small for the 
business, and in 1SS2 the present site, covering an area 
of two acres, fronting on Thorndike Street, and facing 
the South Common on the east, was purchased, and 
here a fine four story brick building 50x100 feet in di¬ 
mensions was erected. The demand for the remedy 
increased so rapidly that these commodious quarters 
were outgrown and an addition larger than the original 
Laboratory was erected in 1SS6, making the Laboratory 
229 feet by 50. So rapidly was every available inch of 
space filled that a new wing has just been erected, 75x 165 
feet in size, -.with four stories and basement, making 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Laboratory the largest building in the 
world devoted exclusively to the proprietary medicine 
business. As it now stands the Laboratory is 490 feet in 
length, having an average width of 60 feet, with Annex 
on the west or railroad side 100x50 feet, and having a 
total floor area of about 150,000 square feet. So great 
has been the growth of the business within the past 
four years, that, where three years ago the concern 
had in the tank room some eight tanks with an aggregate 
capacity of 120,000 bottles, the management was required 
to add two tanks of 15,000 bottles’ capacity each in 1891 
— and the following spring two more of like capacity — 
two more were added in the fall ot 1S92 and another 
pair was built in the spring ot 1S93— making a total 


of sixteen tanks with an aggregate capacity of 240,000 
bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. For several months the 
bottling department has been kept running night and day 
for six days of twenty four hours each in every week to 
supply the demand for this remedy. 

Thus from an humble beginning in 1876 has grown 
up an industry second to none in the line of proprietary 
remedies, and the extensive and imposing structure de¬ 
voted to the manufacture of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, with 
its magnificent lawns and surroundings, is a monument 
to the business worth and enterprise of the founder, 
and to the genuine merit of the remedy as well. 
The “survival of the fittest” applies especially to 
this medicine, the name of which is as familiar 
as a household word in every section of the west¬ 
ern hemisphere, as it is also in many parts of the old 
world. 

It is especially deserving of notice that the fame of 
this great remedy began at home, and from the cures 
effected in Lowell and other New England cities, the 
growth of the industry began and spread to every city, 
town and hamlet in the United States, rapidly growing 
in favor, until it is without a rival in the markets, at 
home or abroad. In the case of the discoverer of this 
remedy, the adage that “a prophet is not without honor, 
etc.,” does not obtain, for it is at home and among his 
own people that the name of C. I. Hood is held in 
highest esteem as a public benefactor and a model busi¬ 
ness man in all that the terms imply. 

The many and wonderful cures effected by Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla have everywhere excited the attention and 
admiration of the medical profession. It is a highly con¬ 
centrated extract, prepared from Sarsaparilla, Dandelion, 
Mandrake, Dock, Pipsissewa, Juniper Berries and other 
well known and valuable remedies, and it effects cures 
where other preparations entirely fail. Especially for 
scrofula, and other affections of the blood, it is singularly 
beneficial, and there is perhaps no medical preparation 
in use which so strongly retains its hold on popular 
favor wherever it is used. Assuredly in the case of 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla it may truthfully be said that “ merit 
bears the palm.” Wherever introduced it wins the con¬ 
fidence of the people, who soon learn that “ Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla cures.” 


4 o 


FOWFFF ANJJ VICINITY OF TO-1) a y. 


VOLUME OF BUSINESS. 


T HE industries of Lowell are manifold. The manu¬ 
facture of cotton cloth was the first established, and 
it is still the staple of our great trade. There are seven 
large corporations engaged in that industry, producing 
257,000,000 yards of cloth per annum, and giving em¬ 
ployment to 15,000 people. 

There are 103,000,000 yards of calico dyed and 
printed every year. 

The sales of these seven corporations for the year 
1892 amounted to over $20,000,000, and the total sum 
involved in their business was about $40,000,000. 

There are eight mills engaged in the manufacture 
of woolens and carpets. The volume of business trans¬ 
acted by them in 1S92 aggregated in round numbers over 
$13,000,000. 

There are twelve mills which manufacture elastic 
webbing, suspenders, hosiery, underwear, cotton and 
worsted yarn. Their business last year aggregated cpiite 
$6,000,000. 

There is besides the bleachery one other manufactur¬ 
ing dye works, and the aggregate of business done in 
that line was $2,000,000. 

There are twenty-six machine shops in Lowell, the 
largest of which is the Lowell Machine Shop, with a 
capital of $900,000, employing 1,500 men. Then comes 
the Kitson Machine Company, builders of cotton machin¬ 
ery. There are four foundries, exclusive of that in the 
Lowell Machine Shop. There are in addition to the 
American Bolt Company, several establishments for the 
manufacture of bolts and screws. Of other iron indus¬ 
tries there are one manufacturer of scales, one of turbine 
water wheels, four wire workers, and two boiler makers. 


The aggregate of business done by all grades of iron 
workers during the year 1S92, was $8,460,000. 

There are six large lumber dealers in Lowell, four 
manufacturers of boxes, five of doors, sashes and blinds, 
one of coffins, one of bungs, one of clamps and screws, 
seven of furniture, two of refrigerators, two of stairs, 
one of tanks and vats, and one of croquet sets. The 
aggregate of business done by these workers in wood is 
enormous. 

There are no less than twent}-six manufacturers of 
mill supplies, doing a business aggregating $3,000,000 per 
annum. 

Of miscellaneous industries such as cash carriers, 
shoes, etc., the aggregate will not fall short of $5,000,000. 
Nor does this include the money turned over in our 
patent medicine factories. The aggregate of business 
done in proprietary medicines and perfumes was over 
$7,000,000. 

During the past two years a large number of the 
smaller industries have cast their lot with us, and have 
worked up a business far beyond their most sanguine 
expectations. 

Among the most noteworthy newcomers to Lowell 
are John Pilling, shoe manufacturer, whose new factory 
gives room for hundreds of skilled employes; J. M 
Stover, another shoe manufacturer, has found his business 
increasing each month since his arrival in Lowell ; A. 
W. Greeley has established a slipper factory in the 
vicinity of Hale Street, and his orders have pushed him 
for more room and more employes. In fact 1S93 sees in 
Lowell a diversified addition of new and paying industries, 
which help along in the general prosperity of our city. 


CLEARING HOUSE. 


Y EAR by year the banks are becoming in a constantly 
increasing degree the accountants of the business 
transactions of their respective communities, and the work 
of the clearing houses summarizes the financial operations 
of the several cities wherein those institutions flourish. 
In this respect, however, Lowell is uniquely situated, 
inasmuch as the larger money dealings of her great 
manufacturing corporations are prosecuted by their treas¬ 
urers in Boston, with the effect that the reports of the 


Lowell clearing house relate solely to the more strictly 
commercial exchanges resulting in the course of the local 
retail trade. Nevertheless, Lowell retains her position 
well in the face of this fact and of the fact that she 
does not profit by the adventitious aid of speculation, 
which so largely augments the clearings of more metro¬ 
politan cities, nor by the frequent and sometimes fictitious- 
transfers of real estate which swell the totals of certain 
western places far beyond the actual interchange of cash. 



flftanuf act livers of flMain anb jfanc^ 



jfor Habics’, fllMsscs anb CbUbren. 


Special Production==StainIess Fast Black Hose. 

OFFICE AND FACTORY==MT. VERNON STREET AND BROADWAY. 


This corporation was established and began operation in 1S69. Its first officers were C. P. Talbot, brother 
of the late Governor Talbot, President; ex-Mayor Hocum Hosford, Treasurer; and W. F. Salmon, Manager; all 
of whom have since died. It is essentially a Lowell institution, almost all of its stock being owned in this city, 
and it has had connected with it some of Lowell’s most prominent men. 

This Company, while making a grade of Hosiery suited to the popular purse, have always maintained a 
high reputation for the excellence of their goods, and were awarded the medal of the Centennial Exhibition of 
1S76, for their high standard in this respect. 

For the past few years the demand has been for 


BLACK HOSIERY 


and this Company has been running almost entirely on their Fast and Stainless Blacks. They have had a very 
large sale on these goods, and, although dyeing all colors, their Fast Black continues to be the bulk of their production. 

They take the raw cotton as it comes from the South, and turn it into any color or style of stocking de¬ 
sired. Connected with the mills is a bleachery where, besides their own work, they do the bleaching of several of 
the other knit goods mills of this city. 

The present officials are: Arthur G. Pollard. President; James Duckworth, Treasurer, and W. A. Eastman, 
Superintendent. The goods are all sold through the well known house of 

BLISS, FABYAN & CO., 


Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. 


























PICKERING KNITTING CO., 


HANUFACTURERS OF 


%abtes\ Cents’ mb Children's Underwear. 


(yv^— 




LOVELL, MHSS, 






PICKERING KNITTING COMPANY. 


Among the leading manufacturers of the country none have attained a higher position in their line of business 


than the Pickering Knitting Co. They are the sole manufacturers of the famous 
for by consumers throughout the United States. Probably no Underwear of its 
the jobbers and trade generally as that bearing the well-known trade-mark, 
ering Knitting Company, Lowell, Mass. 



goods so eagerly sought 
class is so popular with 
and made by the Pick- 


















THE 


• • • 


Vidor* Boiler 


Is in use in more houses in Lowell than 
any other kind. In every house it is 
giving perfect satisfaction ; there . . . 


CAN BE NO FAILURE 

with the VICTOR when the^ Heating 
Plant is constructed by u s. . . . . . . . 

The H. R. Barker 
Manufacturing Co. 

90 an<> 92 /IfcttMe Street. 


BARTLETT & DOW, 


DEALERS IN 


MANUFACTURERS OF . . . 


DEALERS IN 


IHPORTERS and GROWERS OF 


DEALERS IN 


IMPORTERS OF 


Builders' Hardware, Mechanics Tools and Cutlery. 

The “Common Sense ” Milk Pails and Milking Tubes. 
Agricultural Implements and Farm and Garden Requisites. 
Choice Garden. Flower, Vegetable and Farm Seeds. 

- Mill and Machine Shop Supplies and Asbestos Goods. 

- French and German Toys, Dolls and Holiday Goods. 


Nos. 128, 132 & 134 Central Street, 


LOWELL, HASS. 






























































































































44 


LOWE LI. A.KD VICINITY OF TO-1) NY. 


MERRIMACK WOOLLEN MILLS. 


N OTED as is the City of Lowell and adjacent sec¬ 
tions of the State for its many and extensive 
industries, there are no enterprises which have been more 
successfully conducted, or which have added more to the 
immense trade centering here, than the Merrimack 
Woolen Mills, located at Dracut. This important in¬ 
dustry was established in 1863 by Mr. Solomon Bach¬ 
man, the present proprietor, and Mr. August Fels as 
agent, and for thirty years under Mr. Fels’ able manage¬ 
ment the business has steadily increased and extended, 


shawls, 12,000 yards of heavy beaver cloakings and 4,000 
yards of dress goods per month. In quality, styles and 
finish, the goods of the Merrimack Company successfully 
compete with all others of the kind in the markets of 
the United States, and the demand of the trade for the 
product of these mills is always fully equal to the facili¬ 
ties for supplying the same. Since 1S63 Mr. August Fels 
has been the efficient agent of these mills, and Mr. Henry 
L. Newhall has been the paymaster of the concern for 
the same period. The selling agents are Mr. S. Bachman 



until it is now one of the most important industries of 
this great manufacturing centre. The buildings are large 
and substantial structures, equipped throughout with the 
most improved machinery and appliances for the manu¬ 
facture of dress goods, shawls and cloakings, and twenty 
sets of woolen machinery and eighty-three broad looms 
are in constant operation, the power being supplied both 
by steam and water. A force of four hundred and fifty 
hands is employed in the various departments of this 
extensive establishment, and the output aggregates S,ooo 


and Mr. Herman Adler, of No. S7 Worth Street, New 
York City, through whom the entire product ot the 
mills is distributed to the trade through all parts of the 
country. 

Mr. Bachman, the proprietor of these mills, was born 
in 1S27, and is one of the well known, responsible and 
successful manufacturers in this section. It is needless to 
say that the great success of this important enterprise is 
due to the business ability, energy and enterprise of this 
representative manufacturer. 



















Stirling * Mills, 

. . . LOWELL, MASS. . . . 



C. A. R. DIMON, Agent. 


PAUL BUTLER, Treas. 


Cartridge Oom|jcim|, 


LOWELL, MASS. 


AC make all kinds of 


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fllbetallic, Kbietol 

and IRttlc Cartridges, 
and fldaper Sbot Abells. 

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Wallace & Sons, 29 Chambers Street, New York. 

AGENTS : ASK YOUR DEALER FOR THEM 

Chas. Sonntag & Co., San Francisco, Cal. 








































































l^amsoQ 


MANUFACTURERS 


Consolidated 
Store Seruiee Co. 


. . . . CASH CARRIERS,. 


. . . PARCEL CARRIERS, . . . 


. . PNEUMATIC CARRIERS, . . 


COIN TRAYS 


Capital $4,000,000. 





Bi 

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IION. FRANK M. AMES, President. 

IION. ALBERT C. TITCOMB, Treasurer. 

MR. ARTHUR S. TEMPLE, Manager. 

MR. FREDERICK A. SPEAR, General Agent. 
























































































the LRMSON 


CONSOLIDATED 
STORE SERVICE CO. 


Is an outgrowth of the Lamson Cash Carrier Co , organized in iSSr. It was the first company to install 

CASH AND PARCEL CARRYING SERVICE 


IN RETAIL STORES. 


The success that has followed this line of business is phenomenal. The demand for Carriers in both the 
United States and foreign countries has been so great that the manufacturing facilities, on several occasions 
have been found inadequate, thereby necessitating additions, until to-day the plant at Lowell, Mass., is consider¬ 
ed to be one of the best arranged and equipped in all New England. 

The large variety of Carriers manufactured by the Lamson Company enables it to serve not only Retail 
Stores, but also 


Banks, Libraries, Office Buildings, 
Post Offices, Newspaper Offices, &c. 




JT HAS ALSO ACQUIRED AN INTEREST IN 

The Meteor Despatch Co. 

AND THE Automatic Delivery Co. 


BOTH OF WHICH ARE 


. . MANUFACTURERS OF 


PNEUMATIC 


FOR THE DELIVERY OF ... . 

TUBE DEVICES 



© © O O 9 © 


CASH, CERTIFICATES, BONDS, OR MESSAGES, IN GOVERNMENT AND 
PUBLIC BUILDINGS, NEWSPAPER OFFICES, BANKING ROOMS, 

DRY GOODS, RETAIL STORES, OR WHEREVER SUCH 

SERVICE MAY BE REQUIRED. 

Factory==Walker St., Lowell, Mass. Principal Office—89 State St., Boston. 





























































4 S 


DONE 11 and vicinity of to-day. 


The volume of business pursues a steady, healthy 
growth, and shows no signs of retreating upon the path 
it has followed during the past few years. 

The clearing system began in Lowell, March 22, 
1S76, as an experiment, and after less than a month’s 
trial, on April 20, 1S76, the Clearing House Association 
was organized under the following officers: Chairman, 
J. F. Kimball ; vice-chairman, G. B. Allen ; secretary, 
A A. Coburn ; clearing house committee, C. M. Wil- 


cial depression all over the world, and despite adverse 
conditions, a showing of almost torty per cent, increase 
over the figures of four years since! The year following 
showed even greater gains, a fact which has in it great 
encouragement for the business people of our city. 

The year 1893 shows Lowell’s Banks to be as firmly 
established as any in the United States. The great and 
almost unprecedented depression during the past few 
months caused the liveliest apprehension in financial cii- 



WEST SIXTH STREET, CENTRALV1LLE. 


liams, G. W. Knowlton, C. W. Eaton; manager J. S. 
Hovey. The clearing bank was first the Railroad National, 
and since then that duty has been performed in rotation. 
Amended articles of association were adopted July, 1SS9. 

For the year beginning May 1, 1890, and ending 

May 1, 1891, the clearings were $38,922,85903, with 

balances of $11,560,908.16. Nearly forty millions of gross 
exchanges wiihin a year marked by unprecedented finan- 


cles, and banks have succumbed in large numbers 
throughout the country. During it all our local banks 
have responded to all calls promptly, and while acting 
in a conservative manner they dealt liberally and fairly 
with all depositors. To the credit of our people, be it 
said, that the great financial depression was looked upon 
in a philosophical way and no semblance of a run w r as 
made on any of our banking institutions. 




















WOODS, SHERWOOD & CO., 


HANUFACTURERS OF 

WHITE LUSTRAL WIRE WARE. 





Sensible Egg Whips and Cak© Mixers. 



Napkin Rings. 




ARM CLOSED. 

New Wood Flandle Strainers* 




Egg Stands. 


ARM EXTENDED. 

New Wire Handle Strainers. 



Folding Dish Drainers and Plate Warmerc* 


THE BEST, BECAUSE IT IS THE BEST. 




Breakfast Caster*. 



Thi 



PftisjstiotSfflpoirs 



Potato Mashers. 



Sad Iron Stands. 


Standard Ca»ter». 



T HE market is flooded with so-called cheap broilers, and hearing many com 
plaints about these trashy goods we offer to the trade a broiler which any 
dealer can guarantee to his customers to be the best broiler made, and 
therefore the cheapest. 

Our Standard White Lustral Wire Ware has always enjoyed a reputation for 
-superior workmanship and permanent lustre and it is generally conceded that 
these goods are the best of their kind in the world. We invite your careful 
consideration of their merits. 



Sponge Baskets. 


Crown Tea or CofTc© Pot 
Stand*. 


WRITE FOR OUR CATALOGUE ANDTRAOE PRICES 



_ £3 

SHERWOODS 


rTTANDARO^T ** 

~ (.[WHITE lustralI 


Gem Tea or Coffee Pot 
Stands. 




TRADE MARK. 


WOODS, SHERWOOD 
& CO. 

LOWELL. MASS. 

ESTABLISHED A. D. 1861 



Soap Brackets. 




Xile Tea or Coffee Pot Stands. 


Kitchen Forks. 


Brash and Soap Holders* 


There are a few concerns in Lowell that have developed such enterprise and become so pre-eminent in their several vocations as to have not only made 
themselves celebrated throughout the country, but at the same time advertised our city as a manufacturing centre in a manner that would otherwise have been 

i .ivi . E ' L .. '.t.'. knr!TTon fi-v tliQ firm r\( QVipr\v< uti 1 \ r f 'n Plnrinor fViF* Vine 



sive with the Union. Their specialty is in — - . . . . 

articles for household use their goods in this line being favorably known and esteemed throughout all sections of the country and have an immense sale. 

The Ions and successful career of the above firm is a standing proof that first-class goods and square dealing constitute the best possible basis on which to 
build ud a larce and growing trade. In conclusion, we must say as a matter of simple justice and without the slightest intention of laudation, that the enterprise 
of this concern has not only^been highly promotive of the industrial thrift of our city, but it has been managed and conducted upon the basis of business prin¬ 
ciples so honorable and straightforward as to have secured for them an esteem as justly as it is rarely acquired. As regards matters of commerce and business 
the citizens have nothing of which, as a class, they may be more justly proud than the career of such establishments as the above, of which we can boast a few 

in different branches of trade. 




























































5o 


LOWE 11 ANJJ 'VICINITY OF TO-DA V. 


BANKS OF DISCOUNT. 


O F the National Banks and Trust Companies of Low¬ 
ell it would be invidious to speak in terms of 
comparison. All are conservatively managed, paying 
liberal dividends to stockholders and giving plentiful 
accommodation to customers. The aggregate banking 
capital, of $2,300,000; deposits of $4,072,546.15 ; surplus 
of $1,158,092.42, appeared to be, at the time of the 
latest return to the comptroller of the currency, just 
$7’53L53 8*57’ — exclusive of circulation, $658,750, and 
certificates of deposit, $327,345, which being added would 
produce a sum total of $8,517,633.35; besides which 
must also be reckoned the aggregate assets of the savings 
banks, more than twice as much in addition. 

The Appleton Bank was incorporated in 1S47, and 
located in its own building at the corner of Central and 
Hurd Streets, occupying the site of its present elegant 
block, which was erected in 1S7S. This bank has a 
capital of $300,000. 

d he First National Bank was organized under the 
national banking laws in 1S64, with a capital of $250,000. 
In 1S34 it removed from the old building at the corner 
of Central and Middle Streets to its own handsome 
block, 40 Central Street. 

The Prescott Bank was incorporated in 1S50, being 
then located at the corner of Central and Market streets, 
whence it removed in 1865 to occupy its own block at 
2S Central street, where it now is. It has a capital of 
$300,000. 

The Lowell Bank organized in 1S2S became in 
1S65 the Old Lowell National Bank, and under these 
titles has occupied quarters consecutively as follows: 
Corner Merrimack and Worthen streets, the old Wyman’s 
Exchange, Shattuck street, the new Wyman’s Exchange; 
and it has recently removed to its sumptuous apartments in 
the Bowditch building on Central street. Its capital is 
$200,000. 


The Wamesit Bank, which occupies its own build¬ 
ing at the corner of Middlesex and Thorndike streets, 
was incorporated in 1S53, with a capital of $250,000. 

The Merchants Bank occupies the ground floor of 
its own building, 39 Merrimack street, next west of 
Postoffice block. Its capital is $400,000. 

The Railroad Bank was organized in 1831, chiefly 
by Boston gentlemen and stockholders in our great man¬ 
ufacturing corporations. For forty years this bank did 
the business of the Lowell mills almost exclusively. It 
was first located at the corner of Central and Hurd 
streets, then in succession at the corner of Merrimack 
and John streets, on Shattuck street, in the Carleton 
block, and recently settled in its own building, 93, 95 
and 97 Merrimack street. Its capital was once $Soo,- 
000; but in 1SS5 was reduced to $400,000, just double 
what it began business with 54 years before. 

The Lowell Trust Company is a late addition to 
the city’s banking facilities, whose doors were opened 
Feb 9, 1891. It has a capital of $125,000. The Trust 
Company is located in the new Donovan building at 
the junction of Central, Gorham and Middlesex streets, 
where it has already a thriving business. In connection 
wtth the Lowell Trust Company is the Washington 
Savings Bank, which has won wide favor among our 
people. The aggregate deposits are large, and the 
management is wise and conservative. 

The Traders National Bank was organized January 
4, 1893, at 8 and 10 Middlesex Street, with a capital 
of $200,000, Charles J. Glidden being chosen president. 
It is the first bank to make the innovation — one which 
the public will greatly appreciate — of continuous bank¬ 
ing hours; from S a. m. till 4 p. m. This elegantly 
housed bank has connected with it a Savings Depart¬ 
ment, open the same hours as above, and Saturday 
evenings from 7 till 9. 


INSTITUTIONS FOR SAVINGS. 

T he savings banks of Lowell are widely celebrated other city in the world. There are 47,853 open accounts, 

for the remarkable number and character of their aggregating $17,636,968.78, or an average of $353-79 to 

depositors and the enormous sums invested on behalf of the credit of every account. This vast total represents a 
their busy clients. Lowell has in its savings banks a saving of more than two hundred dollars for every man, 

larger sum, per capita of its total population, than any woman and child in the city; and when it is reflected 



AYER’S 

Sarsaparilla 

CURES 

It cures, because it purifies the blood; 
because it destroys as well as expels from 
the human system the poisons which unless 
removed, produce inflammation and disease; 
because it attacks and breaks up every humor 
whether it lurks in cell or tissue; because 
it restores exhausted vitality, quickens the 
appetite, and acts upon every vital function, 
strengthening those which are weak, vitalizing 
those which are sluggish, and upbuilding those 
which have broken down; and also because 
its use makes food nourishing, work pleasant, 
sleep refreshing, and life enjoyable. AYER’S 
Sarsaparilla will cure you of Scrofula, and 
Scrofulous Humors. It will cure Salt-Rheum, 
Eczema, Tetter, Psoriasis, Scald Head, Ring¬ 
worm, Chronic Catarrh, White Swellings, 
Rheumatism, Gout, Neuralgia, Female Weak¬ 
nesses, Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, Kid¬ 
neys, and Bowels. After Diphtheria, Scarlet 
or Typhoid Fever, after La Grippe or any 
other ailment which poisons the blood and 
prevents rapid recovery, take AYER’S Sar¬ 
saparilla. You avoid mistake, make no ex¬ 
periment, and take no chances when you buy 
this medicine. It will do for you the same as 
it has done for others. Take AYER’S and 
only AYER’S. 


HAS CURED OTHERS, WILL CURE YOU. 


Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral 

relief and speedy cure of Colds, Couglis, Croup, Hoarseness, 
Loss of Voice, Preacher’s Sore Throat, Asthma, Bron¬ 
chitis, La Grippe, and other derangements of the throat and lungs. 'I he 
best-known cough-cure in the world, it is recommended by eminent physicians, 
and is the favorite preparation with singers, actors, preachers, and teachers. 
It soothes the inflamed membrane, loosens the phlegm, stops coughing, anil 
induces repose. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral taken for Consumption, in 
its earlier stages, checks further progress of the disease, and even in the latter 
stages, it eases the distressing cough and promotes refreshing sleep. It is 
agreeable to the taste, needs but small doses, and does not interfere with 
digestion or any of the regular organic functions. As an emergency medicine, 
every household should be provided with Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. 


T'ilk'A ancl P rom P t t0 cure > Ayer’s Pills act on 
■ d.IVC the intestines, not by stimulating, but by 
strengthening them. They promote the natural peristaltic motion of the 
bowels, without which there can be no regular, healthy operations. They im¬ 
prove the appetite, promote digestion, and as an after-dinner pill, are une¬ 
qualed. For the cure of constipation, biliousness, jaundice, vertigo, sick head¬ 
ache, indigestion, sour stomach, and drowsiness, Ayer’s Pills are unsur¬ 
passed. They are equally beneficial in rheumatism, neuralgia, colds, chills, 
and fevers. Recommended alike for the most delicate as well as the most 
robust. Being purely vegetable, sugar-coated, and quickly dissolved, they are 
admirably adapted for household use, as well as for travelers by land or sea. 
Ayer’s Pills are in greater demand, the world over, than any other pill, and are 
recommended by the most eminent physicians. 


Prompt to Act, Sure to Cure. 


EVERY DOSE EFFECTIVE. 

















































COLLINS’ MILLS, 
















LO WITH ANF VICINITY OF TO-FAY. 


53 


M. COLLINS' MILLS. 


A mong the many large concerns in New England 
engaged in the manufacture of textile fabrics, the 
M. Collins Mills, whose extensive plant is located at 
Collinsville, in the Town of Dracut, Mass., stands pre¬ 
eminent, both in regard to the aggregate and quality of 
its output. This enterprise was inaugurated January i, 
1S77, succeeding the Merrimack Woollen Mills, November 
25th, 1S76, by the present proprietor, one of the most 
successful and enterprising among the list of successful 
manufacturers of this section. The business was carried 
on in the “ Old Mill ” until 1SS5, when the substantial 
new mill, which was begun in 1SS4, was completed. 
The growth of the industry necessitated extensive alter¬ 
ations, and in 1S92 the enlargement of the “New Mill” 
was begun, by the addition of three stories to the entire 
structure, making the main building, which is two hun¬ 
dred and thirteen feet by sixty feet in area, six stories 
high, with a weave shed covering a space of one hun¬ 
dred and sixty-five feet by sixty feet attached. The plant 
as it now stands is one of the most complete in the 
country. The machinery is of the best and latest designs 
known to the art, and in their appointments the Collins 
Mills are all that mechanical engineering can suggest. 
The machinery is operated by both water and steam 
power, and a force of three hundred and fifty hands is 
employed in the works. The product of the Collins 
Mills comprises Meltons, Ladies’ Cloths and Cheviots, 
and the specialties of the Company are Beavers and 
Beaver Cloakings of superior quality and finish. In all 
the markets of the country, the output of this great con¬ 
cern successfully competes with ail makes of this line 
of goods, and the immense trade built up by Mr. M. 
Collins, the proprietor, is a just tribute to his business 
worth, energy and judgment. 


Mr. Collins was born June 6, 1S39, and from earliest 
manhood has studied to advantage every detail of the 
manufacture of woollen fabrics, and to his thorough 
knowledge of the art is largely due his wonderful suc¬ 
cess. He is a broad-gauge, liberal and considerate em¬ 
ployer, arid those employed in his works are unanimous 
in sounding his praise. He enjoys the fullest confidence 
and regard of his employes, and all recognize him as a 
friend, true and tried in every emergency. 

The Town of Collinsville, named in honor of the 
proprietor of these mills, is largely owned by Mr. Collins, 
and in everything relating to the welfare of the people 
he is ever the foremost and most liberal leader, giving 
his time and money freely to advance the interests of 
those in his employ, as well as those otherwise engaged. 
It is to such men as Mr. Collins that this section of 
the country owes its wonderful growth and financial 
prosperity, and in the markets of the country, as at home, 
he is accounted one of the most prominent and reliable 
of New England manufacturers. The special qualities 
requisite to build up and carry on to a successful issue 
an enterprise of this magnitude are possessed by Mr. 
Collins in a remarkable degree. Giving to every depart¬ 
ment of his business his undivided attention, he is able 
to keep abreast of the times in every detail of style and 
design, and in every regard the quality of the goods 
manufactured by the Collins Mills are of standard excel¬ 
lence and finish. The trade is steadily growing and has 
already attained large proportions, the business being a 
large factor in the immense aggregate of the trade of 
this great manufacturing section. This industry is a 
worthy monument to the skill, tact and business worth 
of one who has met with large success, because success 
was eminently deserved. 



54 


LOWFDD and vicinity of to-day. 


that but one-half these people are employed in remun¬ 
erative occupations, it will be seen that it represents 
an investment of more than four hundred dollars on the 
part of every working person in Lowell. 

During the calendar )ear ending at the date of the 
latest return to the state commissioners, there were made 
51,30s deposits, aggregating $3^353->3°°- 7 1 •> an average of 
$65.35 f° r each entry, or an average addition of $77.50 
to each account in the course of a year. 

The Lowell Institution for Savings was incorporated 
in 1S29, and has been known very generally as the 


successor, the present incumbent, was his son, George J. 
Carney. 

The City Institution for Savings was organized in 
1847, and has maintained its location ever since at the 
corner of Central and Hurd Streets. Its first president was 
Rev. H. A. Miles, succeeded by Rev. D. C. Eddy, Dr. 
Nathan Allen and Hon. F. T. Greenhalge. John A. But- 
trick, the first treasurer, was succeeded in 1S75 by F. 
A. Buttrick, his son. 

The Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank was incorpo¬ 
rated in 1S54. Rev. Horatio Wood was its first presi- 



MERRIMACK STREET. 


“ Old Lowell Savings Bank.” For two years the Mer¬ 
rimack and Hamilton Companies had acted as deposi¬ 
taries for the savings of their operatives, issuing books 
and paying interest, but when attention was called to 
the doubtful legality of such beneficence the plan was 
abandoned and a petition made to the legislature for a 
savings bank charter. Elisha Glidden was the first presi¬ 
dent, and he was succeeded in turn by Theodore Edson, 
John O. Green and Charles A. Savory. James G. Car¬ 
ney was the first treasurer, from 1S29 to 1S69; and his 


dent, holding office until 1SS5, when, on his resignation, 
S. G. Mack was elected in his place. The first treas¬ 
urer, A. S. Tyler, has filled the position since the organi¬ 
zation of the bank. The bank occupies its elegant 
marble building at the corner of Merrimack and John 
Streets. Its special field is the care of small deposits, 
being privileged to receive sums less than one dollar. 

The Mechanics Savings Bank was organized in 1S61, 
and its only presidents have been Wm. A. Burke and 
Jeremiah Clark. John F. Rogers was the first treasurer, 

























TIIE THOMPSON HARDWARE COMPANY. 























































1845 —J. Rogers —1845. 


1866—Rogers, Taylor & Co.—1866. 


1891—The Thompson Hardware Co.— 1891. 


The Thompson Hardware Co., 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 

Hardware and Metals, 

HILL SUPPLIES 


OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, OF WHICH WE CARRY THE LARGEST AND MOST 

COMPLETE LINE IN NEW ENGLAND. ALSO, 



ESTABLISHED INCORPORATED 

• • 1840. . . . . 1884. . . 


Talbot Dyewood and Chemical Co., 


MANUFACTURERS OF 



ACIDS, 



CHEMICALS, 

IHJlgfiCT 

^§SBfS 



AND DYEWOODS. 



Nos. 24 and 26 Middle Street, 


LOWELL, MASS. 




















































L O VIE I I .4 NIJ VICINITY OF TO-1A Y. 


5S 


FRENCH AND PUFFER. 


T HIS firm is one of the oldest established in our city, 
and to-day its progressive methods are recognized 
not only in our own city, but throughout New England, 
where its agents and representatives are well known. 
The founder of this 
establishment, Mr. 

Amos B. French, 
died a few years 
since, and his 
methods and work 
have been so 
amplified, that the 
business of the con¬ 
cern has greatly 
enlarged, and truly 
never so flourish¬ 
ing than it is to- 
d a y , under the 
m a n a g e m e n t of 
Mr. Freeman W. 

Puffer a n d M r . 

Amos B. Leighton, 
the latter of whom 
dates his connec¬ 
tion with the firm 
since the death ot 
Mr. French. 

French & Puf¬ 
fer are large im¬ 
porters of crockery, 
china, glass and 
plated ware, and 
are wholesale deal- 
ers in wooden 
ware, t i n w a r e, 
agate ware, etc., 
and all their goods 
have the distinc¬ 
tion of being care¬ 
fully selected in 
large metropolitan markets, and under the personal super¬ 
vision of members of the firm. Honest and square 
dealing have always characterized the firm, and so well 
is this characteristic known by our people that French 
& Puffer’s word is always as “ good as their bond.” 


During the past year or two the firm has inaugurated 
a bargain sale for each week of the year, and in this 
thev have had encouraging success. All these bargains 
are genuine, and it is a policy of the concern not to 

furnish any of the 
articles advertised 
at the same price 
after the time for 
which the bargains 
w ere announced. 
During the past 
year at least ten 
thousand d o 11 a r s’ 
worth of goods, 
most of them arti¬ 
cles of c o m m o n 
use, have been dis- 
posedof, and no 
firm in the city 
more firmly be¬ 
lieves in the use of 
printer's’ ink than 
French & Puffer. 
For the next year 
the firm have in 
mind a series of 
elegant goods that 
they are to offer 
as “catch-bar¬ 
gains,” -and they 
are to be offered 
at cost price, many 
of them u n d e r 
cost. This is one 
of the many ways 
in which the firm 
has gathered 
friends, and in¬ 
creased business. 
Probably no con¬ 
cern of a similar character in the state has a more varied 
assortment in their line of goods than this firm. They 
buy in large quantities, pay cash for all they get, and 
then give customers the benefit of the pecuniary ad¬ 
vantages they themselves receive. 




































































1 )ERBY & MORSE, 


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ELECTRI CIANS., 


The Largest Construction House in the City. 


Cbeu make specialties 
ino anD power. 


of Electrical Construction of everv> 


Description for Electric Xuibt* 


IRcwinDiiuj anb IRepairino of all luitDs of IDvmamos anb /Ibotors. 

HU ktnDs of jfans, Electric Eells, Speaking Cubes, Gas ^Lighting anb General Electrical 
Supplies. 


No. 40 MIDDLE STREET. 


SCANNELL & WHOLEY, 



m anufacturers of steam Botlevs, anb Steel anb Hvon plate Mork. 























































6o 


LOWELL A XT) VICINITY OF TO-FAY. 


Succeeded by C. F. Rattles and the present incumbent, 
C. C. Hutchinson. Until 1SS9 this bank was associated 
more or less closely with the Railroad National Bank in 
its quarters, but since that date has occupied the second 
story of its own building on Merrimack Street, opposite 
Kirk Street. 

The Central Savings Bank was incorporated in 1S7r, 
and from the first Oliver H. Moulton has been its presi¬ 
dent. Its first treasurer was J. N. Pierce; but the pres¬ 
ent incumbent, Samuel A. Chase, has held the office 
since 1S73. The bank has its place of business with 
the Merchants National Bank, where is also maintained 
a safety-deposit vault. 


The Merrimack River Savings Bank was also incor¬ 
porated in 1S71, and J. G. Peabody has been its presi¬ 
dent ever since. Its treasurers have been G. W. Knowl- 
ton, A. J. Flint and Nathan G. Lamson, the latter now 
holding the position. 

The Lowell Co-Operative Bank was chartered April 
29, 1SS^, with an authorized capital of $1,000,000, and 
it has been favored with continual prosperity. Twelve 
series of shares have been issued, and the largest divi¬ 
dend was at the rate of 7 per cent. Meetings are held 
the first Friday after the roth of each month, at which 
the money on hand is loaned to the highest bidders. 


INSURANCE COMPANIES. 


F OR nineteen years the only insurance company in 
the city was the Lowell Mutual Fire Insurance 
Company, which was incorporated March 6, 1S32, its 

first place of business being on the site of the present 
building of the Appleton Bank. The office was thence 
removed to the corner of Central and Market Streets, 
where it remained forty years; in 1SS4 it was removed 
to the second s'ory of the First National Bank block. 
Luther Lawrence was its first president, succeeded by 
Elisha Glidden, John Nesmith, Jona. Tyler, Horace 
Howard, J. B. French, J. H. B. Ayer, J. K. Fellows. 
Hon. J. C. Abbott, now president, has been in office 
since 1S80, and E. T. Abbott, the secretary and treas¬ 
urer, was elected in 1SS3. This company takes no risks 
outside the city of Lowell, and employs no agents. It 
pays return profits of 33 1 -3, 50, and 70 per cent, on 1, 
3 and 5-year policies. 


The Traders and Mechanics Fire Insurance Com¬ 
pany was incorporated in JS4S as a mutual company, 
to which a stock department was added in 1S54. Both 
departments were conducted until 1SS1, when the capital 
and surplus were divided among the shareholders and 
the mutual business was continued. Levi Sprague is 
president and Edward M. Tucke is secretary. This com¬ 
pany pays 30, 50 and 70 per cent, return premiums on 
1, 3 and 5-year policies. 

Out-of-town insurance companies are represented in 
Lowell by Charles Coburn, II. C. Church & Son, G. 
\V. Coburn & Son, J. B. Coleman, T. L. Dickey, J. M. 
Dixon, J. M. Kilgore, T. C. Lee, N. W. Norcross & Co., 
F. W. Sherman, D. Walker, D. C. Wallace, J B. Swift, 
C. W. Eaton, E. M. Tucke, E. T. Abbott, E E. Man¬ 
sur, F. M. Merrill and others. 


STREET RAILWAYS. 


T HERE have been no more prominent factors in the 
recent development of Lowell than the Street Rail¬ 
ways. Statistics prove this beyond question of doubt. 

The Lowell Horse Railroad Company was organized 
in April, 1S63, with an authorized capital of $100,000, 
and a paid up capital of $40,12S. 

On March 1, 1S64, the lines were opened for busi¬ 
ness. There was a route from Belvidere to Pawtucket 


Falls, and one from the Post Office to Whipple’s Mills, 
via Central Street, was changed to Gorham Street, and a 
line laid through Middlesex Street to the old Lafayette 
House. The latest extensions were on Westford and 
Chelmsford Streets and Broadway. 

The Lowell Company enjoyed a monopoly of the 
carrying business until 1SS6, when the Lowell Si Dracut 
Company was organized under articles of association, with 


Lowell and S^ipurban Street Railway Co 


This Company has increased its track mileage from 
6 miles in 2S86 to yo miles June 1, i8gj , and changed 
the whole system from animal to electrical motive power. 

In addition to operating cars upon all the principal 
streets of the city of Lowell , it also runs cars to the 
popular resort, Lakeview , in Dr a cut , and to the adjoin= 
ing towns of (Billerica and Chelmsford. 

The plans of the Company contemplate running cars 
to Tewksbury and Tyngsborough. 


Lowell Gas Light Company, 

Office, 22 Sbattuch Street, corner fllMbble Street. 

Commenced lighting January i, 18 50. ■>£. CAPITAL, $500,000. 


O 


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SEW ALL G. MACK, President. JACOB ROGERS, Treasurer. D. B. BARTLETT, Clerk. 


Directors—Sewai.i. G. Mack, Jacob Rogers, Levi Sprague, Alexander G. Cumnock, Edward M. Tucke, John F. Kimball, George S. Motley 


Price of Gas uuith the discount off for prompt payment, is $1.10 per 1,000 feet. 

Priee of Coke, delivered, $4.50 per Chaldron, eash. 


Xo charee made for the use of Meters. No charge made for running supply pipes from street mains to consumers’ cellars. 
Orders left at the office promptly attended to. 






































62 


LOWELL AND 'VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


a capital of $15,000. The line on Lakeview Avenue was 
built and, after some opposition, the company obtained 
permission to lay tracks on Bridge Street and enter the 
city proper. 

In 1S87, the Company was chartered with a capital 
of $100,000, and at once issued $60,000 in bonds. The 
following May, the additional $40,000 was subscribed. 

In rSS9 bonds were issued for the purpose of mak¬ 
ing an electrical equipment for the line built to Lake- 
view. This has a total length of five miles, and conveys 
the people to the loveliest and best conducted Summer 
resort in New England. 

In March, 1S90, the Railroad Commissioners author¬ 
ized the Lowell & Dracut Company to issue further 
bonds for $100,000. At that time it had the routes run¬ 
ning from the Post 
Office Square to 
Pa wtucketvi lie, to 
Fort Hill Park, to 
the Lowell Cemetery 
and to Ward Four, 
in all 13AV0 miles of 
track. 

The Lowell 
Company had at the 
same time 13^ 
miles of track. 

On the 20th of 
Oct ber, 1SS7, the 
directors of the Low¬ 
ell & Dracut Com¬ 
pany acquired a controlling interest in the Lowell Com¬ 
pany. 

It was soon found that the convenience of the public 
would be much enhanced and rapid transit virtually 
established, and the stockholders agreeing, consolidation 
was consummated and a new company organized under 
the title of the Lowell & Suburban Street Railway 
Company. 

That the Street Railway is a factor in the develop¬ 
ment of the city is amply proved by statistics. 

In looking over the figures, Ward One shows a loss 
of 2.71 per cent, in population, for the reason that the 
Street Railroad afforded an opportunity for people to 
leave that congested district and put houses in other 
sections. 



AMERICAN BOLT COMPANY. 


The figures of Ward Four are the most significant 
here, the increase of valuation was 109 per cent. ; the 
increase in population was only 45*10 P er cer *t-i while 
the increase in railway facilities was 5 20 P er cent. It 
should be said that the increase in valuation is repre¬ 
sentative of the character of the houses built in this 
Ward. They are for the most part individual dwellings, 
and the valuation is therefore of a very substantial 
character. 

The increase in the population in Ward Five is larger 
than it is in any other ward, while the increase in 
valuation is the lowest. This is accounted for by the 
fact that “ Little Canada,” with its great tenement blocks, 
offers cheap inducements for French Canadians to live 
there. 

While the in¬ 
crease in population 
throughout the city 
has been 31 per 
cent, in ten years, 
the increase in dwel¬ 
ling houses has been 
41 per cent. This 
has been possible 
through the medium 
of the Street Railway 
extensions, which 
have led people to 
go toward the su¬ 
burbs and own their 
own homes. From 


1SS0 to 1SS5 the population increased seven per cent. ; 
Street Railway facilities increased in the same period, 20 
per cent. 

From 1SS5 to 1S93, the increase of population was 
22 per cent. ; for the same period the increase in Street 
Railway facilities was 400 per cent., a most remarkable 
progress, which proves the wisdom of the enterprise 
which gave the city the railway routes it now enjoys. 
And that it has been a profitable investment may be 
gathered from the fact that while the population increased 
22 per cent, from 1SS5 to 1S93, the income of the 
Street Railway Companies increased 400 per cent, in the 
same period. 

The Lowell & Suburban Street Railway Company is 
the outcome of the consolidation of the two companies. 





































MILES F. BRENNAN, General Manager. 


PERCY PARKER, Treasurer. 



BOLTS OF ALL KINDS Al 

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For Cotton and Woolen Mills, Machinery Hanufacturers, Engine, Locomotive and Car Builders. 
Truss Rods, Turnbuckles and Building Irons of every description. 

Cold Punched Nuts, Washers, Lag, Cap and Set Screws. 


Special Electric Railway Supplies 



Viz.: Insulator Pins, Pole Clamps, Bond Rivets, Safety Hooks, Pole Signs, Eye Bolts, &c. 






Manufacturers of 


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First Quality Yarns, 3’s to 40’s. 

Single or Multiple or Twisted, from 2 to 
200 Ends. 

Maerame, Tacking, Bookfold, and all kinds 
ot Twine3 in Gray or Colors. 

Knitting and Hosiery Yarns, and all kinds 
of Banding3 and Rope. 

Fine Hose Cords a specialty. 

Goods shipped on 5, 7 and 8 in. Spools, 
on Beams, Warper Balls, Skeins, Cones or 
Tubes, Hanks or Creels. 


Sold directly from mill at manufac- 


BENJ. PHIPPS, President. 

CHAS. A. STOTT, Treasurer and Agent. 
CHAS. H. WALKER, Supt. Mill No. 2 . 


Flannels and Dress Goods. 


SELLING AGENTS: 

PARKER, WILDER & CO., 

BOSTON AND NEW YORK. 


turers’ prices. 














































AGENTS FOR THE 

PETERS & CALHOUN CO., 

FACTORY, NEWARK, N. J. 
Branch, 56 Sudbury St., Boston. 
The Largest flanufacturers of all kinds 
of Harnesses in the World. 


BRANCH 

LONDON HARNESS AGENCY 

206 Devonshire Street, 

BOSTON. 


AGENTS OF THE 

ABBOTT DOWNING CO. 

CONCORD, N. H., U. S. A. 
Manufacturers of the Celebrated 
Concord Wagons. 



102 Sets Single anb Double Ibarness banging in plain view. 

ROBES, BLANKETS, WHIPS, STABLE FITTINGS AND FURNISHINGS, 

RIDING SADDLES AND nnrm.FS =~= . . 

OCCUPYING TWO FLOORS. 

CON ANT & COMPANY, 184 and 186 Central St. 


IIENRY L. HUNTRESS. 


EDMUND B. CON ANT. 





























ANOTHER OF LOWELL’S PRIZED INDUSTRIES 




/Ubagee’s jEmuleton 

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with 1b\>popbo8pblte8 (Xtmc an<> Softa.) 


AN UNFAILING REMEDY IN LUNG TROUBLES, 
SCROFULA AND WASTING DISEASES. 

PHYSICIANS ENDORSE IT AS THE BEST EMULSION. 
A MEDICINE, A FOOD, A STIMULANT, ALL IN ONE. 
A NATIONAL REPUTATION IN THE UNITED STATES 
AND BRITISH AMERICA. 


manufactured by the MAGEE EMULSION COMPANY, 

LOWELL, MASS., U. S. A. 



JOSI7AH CHTES 5t SONS. 


MANUFACTURERS OF 


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RUBBER BELTING AND MILL SUPPLIES. 

137 MARKET STREET. LOWELL. MASS. 































66 


FOWFII AND VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


Its officers are: E. M. Tucke, president; August Fels, 
vice-president; Percy Parker, treasurer; P. F. Sullivan, 
secretary. Directors: E. M. Tucke, A. Fels, P. Parker, 
P. F. Sullivan, T. Costello, E. A. Smith, W. M. 
Sawyer, F. W. Howe, S. Bachman, M. F. Brennan and 
J. Lennon, and its capital stock is $400,000 

The company has fifty-two miles of track, one- 
quarter of which is 90 lb. girder rail, one-half ^0 lb. 
T rail, and the balance is 40 and 45 lb. T rail and 
Providence girder rail. The Lowell and Dracut Corn- 


best fitted of any in the state of a similar size. All of 
the buildings are brick. 

All the tracks and main lines have been doubled, 
and Lowell enjoys a fairly rapid service. It cost over 
$200,000 to double these tracks and to make the exten¬ 
sion from the Bridge Street terminus to the “Yellow 
Meeting House” in Dracut; from the Middlesex Street 
terminus through Middlesex Village to North Chelmsford ; 
from the Chelmsford Street terminus to Chelmsford Cen¬ 
tre ; from the Gorham Street terminus to North Billerica, 



FORT HILL PARK. 


pany was one of the first to adopt electricity as a motive 
power. It ran its cars by that force August 1, 1SS9. 
It had then eight cars; now it has 122 — sixty open cars, 
forty-two close cars, and twenty trailers. 

A splendid power station has been erected and fully 
equipped, at the corner of Middlesex and Pawtucket 
Streets, a car house in connection has capacity for 120 
cars,Nand the repair shops, close by, are probably the 


and from the Nesmith Street terminus to Phenix. Plans 
are now being perfected to run to Tewksbury and Tyngs- 
boro. Thus all the manufacturing suburbs are brought into 
closer unity with the city, and the people in the denser 
quarters invited to the occupancy of the land that lies 
between those villages and the city. These extensions add 
much to the valuation of the city, for the most distant point 
will be within a half hour’s ride of the business centre. 






W. A. 


HANUFACTURER OF 



DICKINSON, 


POWDERED, 

SCOURING, 

FILLING, 

LAUNDRY, 




DEALER IN PRIME TALLOW, CAUSTIC SODA, 
SAL SODA, SODA-ASH AND UFNJN ^ 


Works==Corner Howard and Tanner Streets, 

LOWELL, MASS. 



. . . DEALERS IN . . . 



AND CARRIAGE WOOD WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 


Burden's Best Iron, Ulster Iron, Norway Iron, Jessop & Firth's Steel, American Steel. 


Please write to us for quotations before placing your orders. Shipments made direct from the mill at lowest prices. 
We carry the best selected stock of goods in our line in the city. 

Also, BOUT WELL & COMPANY, 


OFFICE AND STOREHOUSE-39 & 41 SLEEPER ST., BOSTON, MASS. 









































































































68 


LOVIELD ANT) VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


RAILROAD FACILITIES. 


L OWELL enjoys exceptional railroad facilities. The 
Boston & Lowell Railroad was projected by Patrick 
T. Jackson, the founder of our cotton industry, and com¬ 
pleted in 1S34. It was one of the earliest railroads in 
the United States. 

The Lowell & Nashua Railroad was subsequently 
built and then followed the Stonybrook Railroad, the 
Framingham Railroad, the Salem Railroad, and the An¬ 
dover Railroad. 

Lowell is connected with a system which furnishes 
transportation to every section of the country. With the 
exception of the Framingham Railroad, all the roads 
entering Lowell are now part of the Boston Sc Maine 
system. 

The Boston Sc Lowell Railroad, or the Southern 
Division of the Boston Sc Maine, is twenty-six miles in 
length. Its terminus in Lowell is at the Merrimack 
Street Station. It has direct connections with the Lowell 
Sc Nashua, the Stonybrook, the Rochester, the Concord, 
the Northern, the Worcester, Nashua & Portland, the 
Montpelier & Wells River, the Vermont Central, the 
Passumpsic, the Claremont & Peterboro, the Concord Sc 
Montreal and the Canadian Pacific Railroads. Goods are 
now shipped direct from our mill yards to the Pacific 
Coast for China and Japan. Lowell is on the direct 
line of travel to Canada and the White Mountains. 

The Stonybrook Railroad runs from North Chelms¬ 
ford to Ayer Junction, making connections with the 
Fitchburg and the Worcester Sc Nashua Railroads. 

The Lowell & Salem Railroad connects Lowell with 
that port and the intervening cities and towns. 

The Lowell Sc Andover Railroad has its terminus in 
the Central Street Station. It is a branch of the Northern 
Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, having direct 
communication with Newburyport and the coast towns 
lying between that city and Portland, Me. At Portland 
it makes close connections with the Portland & Odgens- 
burgh, the Maine Central and the Grand Trunk Rail¬ 
roads. 


The Framingham is a branch of the Old Colony, 
running from South Framingham to Lowell. It is a 
direct line to Fall River, Providence and New York, 
from which places there are two through trains every 
day. There are three stations in Lowell, one in Central 
Street, one in Merrimack Street and one in Middlesex 
Street; the latter is the principal station and has been 
recently erected. It is perhaps not of the size and im¬ 
portance which Lowell demands. But it is only a pre¬ 
cursor of something better, let it be hoped. 

The Company has made many recent changes in the 
Freight department. It has acquired much land in the 
neighborhood of the Middlesex Street Station, and on the 
line of Gorham Street has built several spacious Freight 
Sheds. These, in addition to the Freight Yards in West¬ 
ern Avenue, the yards of the Lowell Sc Andover Rail¬ 
road and the newly acquired yards near the Concord 
River, will enable the Railroad Company to give our 
local trade a prompt, convenient and efficient service. 

The city is a net-work of spur tracks running from 
the main lines of the mill yards. The Framingham Road 
also has a spur line running to the industries in Ayer 
City. On all these numerous lines of railroad there is 
more or less land that is desirable for manufacturing 
purposes. The tariff rates are not high and the service 
is accommodatingly frequent. 

There are twenty-three trains from Boston on the 
Southern Division, every day, and twelve on the Western 
Division, a total of thirty-five trains a day from the 
capital. The number of trains from Lowell to Boston 
on the Southern Division is twenty-three and on the 
Western Division, thirteen. There are in all seventy-one 
trains in the daily service between Boston and Lowell. 

There are three daily express trains to and from 
Montreal and an equal number in the White Mountains’ 
service during the summer season. There are six daily 
trains to and from Salem ; thirty-six daily trains between 
Lowell and Lawrence, and twenty daily trains between 
Lowell and Haverhill. 


C. F. FOSS & CO., 


EDWARD N. WOOD & CO., 

Successors to SAMUEL N. WOOD & SON, 



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LOWELL, MASS. 

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W. H. WIGGIN, 

Builder, 

DEALER - IN - LUMBER - AND - HAY, 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 

Corner Willie and Franklin Streets. Yard, Rock Street. 


LOWELL, MASS. 






















LOWELL AND VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


7 ° 


LOWELL’S HOMES. 


L OWELL is most attractively located, and the home 
sections of the city have each a distinctive name. 
They are Belvidere, Oaklands, Centralville, the Highlands, 
Pawtncketville and the Tyler Park. 

Belvidere is built upon a hill and is one of the most 
beautiful sections of the city. It is here that the late 
Ex-Governor Butler lived, and his house has a most 


and picturesque and there are many fine old residences 
in that vicinity. 

Oaklands is a recently opened territory in the region 
of Belvidere, one of the most attractive of the several 
residential sections of the city. The territory comprises 
165 acres, and is the property of a syndicate consisting 
of Messrs. Shepard, Russell & Puller. The larger part 



THE NEW POST OFFICE. 


charming: view of the river as it rushes under the 
Centralville Heights over the rocky bed of Hunt’s Palls. 
Nesmith Street, named after the late John Nesmith, at 
one time Lieutenant-Governor of the State, is a beautiful 
thoroughfare, shaded with tine trees. At the farther end 
of this Street is the Rogers Port Hill Park, 200 feet 
above the level of the city. Andover Street runs along 
the heights above the river and is lined with beautiful 
residences. The neighborhood of Park Garden is peaceful 


of this territory is situated in Lowell; the rest lies in 
the Town of Tewksbury. 

Fort Hill Park is 200 feet high. It commands an 
extensive view of the surrounding country. Lying to the 
east of the Park are two other eminences of similar 
height. One of these is Belvidere, the other is Oaklands. 
Oaklands begins in the valley behind the elevation of 
Belvidere, and extends upward until it reaches a parallel 
height and overlooks the residence of the late Gen. Butler. 























































MANUFACTURERS OF PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL 



Galvanized Iron and Copper Work 


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CORNICES, WINDOW CAPS, GUTTERS, DOOR HOODS, CONDUCTORS 
BALUSTRADES, VENTILATORS, &c. 

Sheet Metal Work of all kinds for Mills and Factories. 


Estimates for all kinds of Iron Work for build¬ 
ings will be furnished promptly to parties sending 
plans or drawings of what they wish. 

flDetal .frame Slwhobts. 

These Frames are so constructed that there is no 
chance for leakage, or any dripping from condensa¬ 
tion, and allowance is made for expansion and con¬ 
traction, consequently being the best skylight made. 

218 MIDDLESEX STREET, LOWELL, MASS. 


. E. MOORS, I'll. G. 

Prescription 
Druggist, 

Has one of the best general drug stocks to 
be found in Lowell. 
aw Prescriptions a specialty. 

Manufacturer of MOORS’ COUGH BALSAM. 

MOORS’ DIARRHEA CORDIAL 

Gorham Street, corner Appleton St., 





Opposite New Post Office. 





































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LOWELL A ED VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


Here, the view is superb, bounded by the horizon 
twenty-nine miles distant. On a clear night, the light 
at Minot’s Ledge can be distinctly discerned. Lawrence, 
the Readings, Danvers and Somerville are in sight, and 
Tewksbury and Andover are part of the panorama which 
makes this section so delightful. To the north, glimpses 
may be obtained of the New Hampshire Hills, and to 
the south lie the Chelmsfords with their dense woods 
and the Billericas with their spires and gleaming fields. 
Two rivers are in sight, the picturesque Merrimack, wend¬ 
ing eastward to Lawrence and the sea, and the classic 
Concord, meandering through the meadows of Billerica. 
At this elevation the air is cool even in the fervency of 
summer, and the hill of Belvidere breaks the winter wind 
before it reaches Oaklands. 

The land is a clayey gravel, which makes excellent 
roads and affords dry and comfortable building sites. 
Formerly, the hill was covered with a heavy growth of 
oak, but now it has been stripped with a judicious selec¬ 
tion of much of the timber. There are shady groves 
here and there, and wherever it has been possible to 
spare a tree on the line of the Avenues it has been 
spared. 

At the crest of the hill, at what was once the 
Hovey Farm, there is a crescent partially laid out, upon 
what it was the late Mr. Hovey’s ambition to see an 
Episcopal College established. The present owners, in 
laying out Holyrood Avenue will follow the lines laid 
down by Mr. Hovey, marked by him with a row of 
elms. 

On the brow of the hill are two acres of land pre¬ 
served by Mr. Hovey’s will for the accommodation of 
an Episcopal Church. 

This territory is traversed by avenues fifty feet wide 
and by cross streets. Hanover Avenue goes, straight as 
crows fly, from Andover Street to the Boston & Lowell 
Railroad tracks, and is a mile and a half long. Park 
View Avenue lies parallel and further up the hill. 

There are 450 lots, averaging 6,000 square feet each, 
on this hill territory, and of that number 150 have been 
sold. A number of beautiful residences have been erected. 
Many more are in course of construction. The streets 
are under municipal control, and gas and city water are 
accommodations enjoyed by everybody. There is a fifteen- 
minute-electric-car service and the Post Office is only 
fifteen minutes’ distant. 

Centralville lies on the north side of the Merrimack 


River. It is reached by two magnificent iron bridges 
over which the street railway passes. The heights of 
Centralville, on the summit of which the city reservoirs 
are located, rise 200 feet above the level of the river. 

They command a fine view of the lower city, of 
the surrounding country and the mountains to the north 
and west. 

It is one of the most favored home sections of the 
city. There are some rare old houses there which stand as 
monuments to the good taste, the comfort and the hospi¬ 
tality of the early settlers. The Parker, Hildreth, Tucke 
and McEvoy houses are types of the early day. 

On the lower grounds of Centralville the land is level 
until it reaches the neighborhood of Crescent Hill. Here 
it rises again, and again the character of the houses 
change ; for while on the low land the tenements prevail, 
in the high lands the individual dwelling is the rule. The 
streets are finely shaded with rare old trees. 

Twenty years ago, the Highlands was a farming 
district. There were oak and pine woods upon it fifteen 
years ago. It is now one of the great residence sections 
of the city. People who live in the Highlands would 
not live anywhere else ; they say the section excels Belvi¬ 
dere, and perhaps it will when its trees have cast more 
shade than they do now, for the streets and thorough¬ 
fares are none of them more than fifteen years old. 
The houses here are well separated and green lawns and 
shady gardens are everywhere the rule. Building oper¬ 
ations are very lively in this district; and the men who 
reside here have erected one of the best Club Houses 
to be found in New England. The Club has a large 
and important membership. 

The delightful section of Pawtucketville has but re¬ 
cently been opened up to general occupation. It is on 
the north side of the Merrimack, and through it the 
river tumbles in the picturesque and rugged beauty of 
Pawtucket Rapids. The rapids are spanned by a sub¬ 
stantial iron bridge from which the view of the falls 
is one of the most attractive in the city. 

The city authorities have laid out a magnificent 
Boulevard along the river bank in this section, and the 
improvement brings a great deal of very desirable land 
into the market. There are some fine residences in this 
quarter. 

The land lying between Varnum Avenue and the 
Boulevard is owned by Daniel Gage, Lucy Fay, William 
H. Hill, heirs of Willard Coburn, Mrs. C. A. Green, 



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And all Electrical Appliances used in connection with the same, 

.... MANUFACTURED BV . . . . 


Eastern Electric Light and Storage Battery Co. 


. . . SPECIALTIES. . . . 


ELECTRIC LIGHTING, 
TELEPHONE, 
SIGNALING, 
ELECTRO-PLATING, 
STREET CARS, 
ELECTRIC LAUNCHES. 


PORTABLE BATTERIES FOR 
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LiOLUELiLi, MASS. 


Post Offiee Box 406. 
















































CHARLES E. ADAMS, 

LOWELL, MASS. 

Hardware, * Paints, * Oils, 

GLASS, VARNISHES AND MILL SUPPLIES. 



MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OF TRADE, CHARLES E. ADAMS, President. 

This Association is composed of thirty-two Boards of Trade and Mercantile Organizations, representing the 
entire state, and is an important factor in promoting the welfare of the commercial and industrial interests of 
Massachusetts. 

Mr. Adams is also interested in electrical matters, being President of the Bradbury-Stone Electric Storage Co., 
and a director in the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co of Minnesota, the Cleveland Telephone Co. of Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio, the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Co. of Arkansas and Texas, and a director in the Lowell, 
Lawrence and Haverhill Electric Railroad, now in process of construction. 

He is also a member of the Board ot Investment of the Merrimack River Savings Bank; First Vice-President 
of the National Paint, Oil and Varnish Association ; United States Alternate Commissioner to the Worlds Columbian 
Exposition from Massachusetts. 















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STORAGE BATTERY 

[Or Electrical Accumulation,] 

For Electric Lighting and Power of all 
kinds. 

Isolated Lighting and Motor Work. 

Street Car, Launch and Vehicle 
Propulsion. 

Phonograph and Graphophone, Med¬ 
ical and Surgical Use. 


B**adbury=5tone Electric ^Storage 


LOWELL, MASS. 





President, CHARLES E. ADAMS. 

Vice-President and General Manager, H. W. MORTON. 
Treasurer, ORRIN B. RAN LETT. 

Assistant Manager, JOSEPH Y. BRADBURY. 

Secretary, FRANK J. STONE. 

Electricians, JOSEPH Y. BRADBURY, FRANK J. STONE. 































































































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LOWFFT anij vicinity of to-fay. 


J. M. Wilson, Dr. George Clement, T. J. Underwood, 
George L. Goodale, Edward S. Howe. The tract con¬ 
tains from 250 to 300 acres. 

The Tyler Park land in Ward Four, just opened 
up to the public, is one of the most desirable locations 
in Lowell for a home. Hundreds of house lots have 


been sold the past year, and others are ready for sale. 
These lots are around and about the elegant tract of 
land presented the city, and in the near future will be 
one of the most beautiful spots in this section. D. E. 
Dudley, No. 16 Hildreth Building, has charge of the 
lots. 


LOWELL’S ILLUMINATION. 


A LARGE share of the city’s artificial light is still 
supplied by the Lowell Gas Light Company. This 
company was incorporated in 1849 with a capital ot 
$500,000. Its extensive plant is located on School Street 
near the tracks of the Nashua & Lowell Railroad. 

The annual consumption of coal by this company 
reaches over 20,000 tons, from which are produced 
215,000,000 cubic feet of illuminating gas of excellent 
quality. The gas service of the city is furnished through 
nearly seventy-five miles of mains reaching well into the 


remote residential districts. The exceedingly low price at 
which the company has been able to furnish gas and 
still earn for its stockholders handsome dividends, has 
brought it about that the question of municipal lighting 
has so far possessed but little interest for Lowell. 

The officers of the company are Sewall G. Mack, 
president; Jacob Rogers, treasurer; D. B. Bartlett, clerk; 
Sewall G. Mack, Jacob Rogers, James B. Francis, Levi 
Sprague and John F. Kimball, directors. 


ELECTRICITY. 


T HE artificial illumination of Lowell, aside from the 
gas and gasoline lights — the latter in the suburbs 
onlv — rests entirely with one large and flourishing body, 
the Lowell Electric Light Corporation. It is a body 
which first organized on a small scale and gradually 
extended its scope so as to entirely control the business 
of lighting our streets, places of business and even 
homes, with electricity. The corporation is purely of 
local origin and Lowell men still control and guide its 
fortunes. It first organized in 18S1 under state laws, 
with a capital of $10,000, commencing with two Weston 
arc light machines, and leasing power from an accom¬ 
modating saw mill. 

A year later, the Middlesex Electric Light Company 
was formed and established a small plant on Middle 
Street. The Thomson-Houston system was introduced, 
and a little later the latter company bought out the 
Weston Company. 

The business increased as the demand for electric 
lighting became general, and the Middle Street plant 
became one of no mean proportions. Four years ago, 
the company reorganized under the name it now bears. 


Steps were taken to secure a site for a plant which 
would fully meet future requirements A site was secured 
on the line of the Boston & Maine Railroad, in Belvi- 
dere, and operations commenced. 

The new station on Perry Street, completed and 
occupied about February 1, 1891, is designed for 3,000 
horse power. There is a main building of two stories 
in height, with a large boiler room adjoining the easterly 
end, and a coal shed capable of holding a thousand tons of 
fuel. The boiler room is 66x96 feet with accommodations 
for sixteen horizontal tubular boilers seventy-two inches 
in diameter, seventeen feet long, each containing one 
hundred and forty three-inch tubes, built by Scanned & 
Wholey of this city. The boilers are in two rows and 
between them are the smoke flues, entering a chimney one 
hundred and seventy-five feet high with a seven foot bore. 
All pipes from the boilers to the adjuncts are of brass; the 
steam pipes vary from five to fourteen inches in diameter. 
The feeding sources are one each of Knowles and Worth- 

o 

ington pumps and Hancock inspirator. 

The engine room in the main part is 140x45 feet, 
on the second story, and it contains at present 250 horse 


int erior OF ^Q H WOOD’S DOUBLE JEWELRY STORE, 

85, 87 and 89 Central Street, Lowell, Mass., 



Where can always be found the finest, the best and the 
latest. DIAMONDS, Watches, Fine Jewelry, Sterling 
Silverware, Marble and Onyx Clock, all kinds of Optical 
Goods, at the lowest prices for reliable goods. Every¬ 
thing as represented or money refunded. 


CARD TO THE PUBLIC. 

M. F. WOOD, Practical and Scientific Optician. 

He has received Diploma from the Medical School, 
and is prepared to treat the most difficult cases of Astig¬ 
matism, Myopia, Hyperopia, Presbyopia, and all com¬ 
pound errors of Refraction and Defects of the Eyes. 
Eyes tested free. Satisfaction guaranteed in each case or 
no charge. Call and have your eyes tested by a competent 
optician. Rooms up stairs especially fitted up for this 
purpose. 


NOTICE.—P. M. STEEPER, ten years with Waltham 
Watch Company, has charge of all watch work. 

Finest Engraving done in latest and best style by an 
expert engraver on the premises. Special prices to the 
trade. 


Nos. 85, 87 and 89 Central Street, Lowell, Mass. 


S. H. JONES, 

flMumbmcj, Steam, <3ae anb Mater Jetting, 


. . . DEALER IN PLUMBING MATERIALS, . .. 

PIPE AND FITTINGS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 

30 and 32 MIDDLE STREET. Shop , 265 MIDDLESEX STREET. 


LOWELL, ZMLA.SS. 



































LOYIFLI YNIJ VICINITY OF TO- DA Y. 


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power cross compound Harris-Corliss engine, with cylin¬ 
ders 8x30 inches with thirty-six inch stroke; one 200 
horse power Atlas Engine of high pressure; one 500 
horse power tandem compound Harris-Corliss engine, with 
cylinders 22,440 inches and forty-eight inch stroke; also 
a 300 horse power cross compound condensing engine. 
There is space for two more engines of large capacity. 

The engines are set on heavy granite foundations. 
Under the engine room there are two Knowles Condensers 
for the Corliss Engines, a Harris Condenser; an air 


two inches face. The belt passes under an idler or belt 
tightener. Two eclipse clutches forty-eight and fifty inches 
in diameter are on the journal. Other clutches sub-divide 
the line of shafting. 

The station is wired with okonite and the switch 
boards and appurtenances are of the very latest and best 
adapted styles. 

The entire construction of the building is of the 
heaviest and most substantial kind and the Lowell Sta¬ 
tion is probably the best appointed in New England. 



NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING. 


pump; a 500 horse power national feed water heater and 
two smaller heaters. On the ground level on the other 
side of the building is the shafting room, containing the 
best set line of shafting in New England. The founda¬ 
tions are of Conway granite, resting on a twelve inch 
bed of concrete made of broken stone and cement. The 
main journal bearings are supported on solid granite 
stands. The main pulley, driven from the =;oo horse 
power engine, is seventy-two inches in diameter by fifty- 


The plant has been increased in size and the capa¬ 
bilities for furnishing electrical motive and illuminating 
power developed to the utmost. 

The officers of the company are: George VV. Fifield, 
president; William A. Ingham, vice-president; John H. 
McAlvin, treasurer and secretary; L. I. Fletcher, manager; 
directors, G. W. Fifield, VV. A. Ingham, J. H. McAlvin, 
L. I. Fletcher, Lowell; James H. Tolies, Charles F. 
Collins, Nashua, N. H. ; Cyrus Conant, Concord, Mass. 

























































































































































(y SULLIVAN » B ROS., 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 

leather and Ruliber Footwear 

... OF EVERY DESCRIPTION _ 

Our establishment offers you all the advantages of a metro¬ 
politan store—quality, variety, style—selected from the lead¬ 
ing manufactories of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey 
and Pennsylvania. 

Not every foot that wears a shoe is fitted, any more than 
every one who wears spectacles have not them adjusted to 
their sight. But they ought. 

- - WE FIT FEET. - — 


It is our business, have made it a study, have every means 
to do it with. Don’t suffer with tender feet; our time, expe¬ 
rience and stock are at your disposal. 

Wedding and Fancy Ball Slippers made to order, if neces- 
sarv, in 4S hours. 

O'SULLIVAN BROS., 194 & 196 Mcnimacl St. 


QET IN THE SWIG! 



ARE ALL WHO GO TO 

* * GREEN’S 

jfor Matches, Jewelry anb Silverware, 
pianos, Organs anfr Sewing /iDaebines. 

Watches Cleaned and Main Springs Replaced, $1.00. 
Warranted one year. 

All Jewelry Work at lowest prices at 

GREEN’S, 44L Merrimack St. 


Hose, Belting, Packing,Oil and Rubber Carriage Duck and Drill 



DOLLS, TOYS, 

TEETHING RINGS, 


RATTLES, BALLS, 
DIAPERS. BIBS, 

NURSERY SHEETING. 


. . . RELIABLE . . . 

Rubber Goods Dealers 

Special Agents for Cable Rubber Co., 

HANUFACTURERS OF 

Carriage Cloths, Firemen’s Coats, Wash Aprons, 
Camp Blankets and Macintosh Clothing. 

Water Bottles, Invalid Rings, Bed Pans, 
Fruit Jar Rings, Bathing Caps. Syringes 
from 25c. upwards. Door Mats. 

| 3 gP Come to headquarters for Rubber 
Goods. 


61 Central Street. 

GEO. E. HUTCHINS, - - MANAGER. 



The Storm Slipper, trademark. 


MANUFACTURED ONLY BY THE 

BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO. 

Our stock of Rubber Boots and 
Shoes embraces all the leading 
styles, to fit any width of shoe. 

We will convince you that our 
goods will outwear the common 
grade of Rubber usually sold if 
you will give us a trial. 

We have them made to our 
order from the best 

Para Rubber Gum, 

which ensures the best possible 
wear. 











































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LOWELL END VICINITY OF TO-IJA Y. 


LOWELL’S TELEPHONE SYSTEM. 


T HE first record of a petition for leave to erect wires 
on buildings and on poles for the construction of 
a telephone system in Lowell came from the New Eng¬ 
land Telephone Company, March 12, 1S7S, and was 

signed by Charles J. Glidden. It was referred to the 
Committee on Lands and Buildings of the City Council, 
March 26th of that year. The committee, consisting of H. 
R. Barker, George F. Scribner, Charles H. Harvey, 
Robert Goulding and Samuel D. Butterwoith, reported 
in favor of the petition and the petition was granted. 

It does not follow, however, that the New England 
Telephone Company was the first to do business in Low¬ 
ell. William H. Bent, who was interested in the forma¬ 
tion of the early telephone companies, believes the Pioneer 
Telephone Company, doing business between this city and 
Boston, was the first company in the field, and that the 
Lowell Telephone Exchange was the first to accommo¬ 
date the public. Others say Providence, R. I., opened a 
telephone exchange about the same time as Lowell. 

According to a resident familiar with the business, 
the Lowell District Telephone Company was organized 
in 1S79, with a capital of $15,000. The rapid develop¬ 
ment of the use of the telephone was shown by an 
advertisement of this company in 1880, in which it was 
asserted that the company had 500 stations in Lowell 
and 1,000 in Boston and suburbs. The Lowell Central 
Office was then at Room 12, Shattuck’s Block. W. A. 
Ingham was president and Charles J Glidden treasurer 
and manager. 

In 1S80, consolidation of the Lowell District Tele¬ 
phone Company was perfected with the Worcester Com¬ 
pany, and afterward with the National Bell Company of 
Maine, under the name of the Lowell District Telephone 
Company. The capital stock of the new company was 
$1,500,000. 


In October, 1SS3, the consolidation of the National 
Bell of Maine Company, the Granite State, Boston & 
Northern, Bay State, Suburban and Lowell District Tele¬ 
phone Companies, was consummated in what is now 
known as the New England Telephone Company. The 
capital of the new company was $12,000,000. The 
officers of that company are : Thomas Sherwin, president; 
H. S Hyde, vice-president; W. R. Driver, treasurer; S. 
W. Leedom, secretary and auditor; J. N. Keller, general 
manager. J. W. Duxbury is superintendent of District 
No. 1, which includes Lowell. 

W. II. Lincoln is manager of the Lowell exchange 
of the company. There are about 900 subscribers in the 
Lowell Exchange, and in addition to the many miles of 
line which cover the city and surrounding towns, the 
company has many ex-territorial lines, allowing com¬ 
munication with all the cities and towns in its territory 
having subscribers. 

Of the many citizens who were interested in the 
organization of the first telephone companies, William A. 
Ingham, Charles J. Glidden, A. A. Coburn, Loren N. 
Downs and William H. Bent were the best known. 

They also aided in establishing the Erie Telephone 
Company, which has territory in Ohio, Texas, Arkansas, 
Minnesota and Dakota. Levi Sprague is president of the 
Erie Company at present, and Charles J. Glidden, Francis 
Jewett, A. C. Russell, A. S. Adams, C. E. Adams 
and J. W. C. Pickering are directors. Charles J. Glid¬ 
den is secretary and treasurer. 

Frederick Ayer, Dr. M. G Parker and other Low¬ 
ell citizens are large holders of New England Company’s 
stock. Lowell citizens also largelv aided in establishing the 
Union Telegraph and Telephone Company of Northern 
New York, and own considerable stock of the company 
at present. 


PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 


T HE history of the Lowell Public Schools probably 
begins when, in 1S26, the first school committee 
of the town established ten new school districts in addi¬ 
tion to the Chelmsford School Districts in existence before 
the incorporation of the new town. 

The first School Committee consisted of Rev. Theo¬ 


dore Edson, who justly deserves the title of “ father and 
founder of the school system of Lowell; ” Warren Col¬ 
burn, superintendent of the Merrimack Mills; Samuel 
Batchelder, a many-sided man of high literary culture, a 
devotee of science, and, above all, of the highest in¬ 
ventive genius; Dr. John O. Green, who by his constant 


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CHEST WEIGHTS, 
EOILS, 

BASE BALL GOODS. 


TYPE WRITERS 

For sale or to rent. 

RAZORS. 

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KNIVES. 

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CUTLERY. 

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The Bowditch 

. 17 Central Street, 


FURNISHED 

In Charge 

ROONIS= 

of Matron. 


Single and in Suite for 
Permanent or Transient 
Quests; Steam Heated ; 
Speaking Tubes ; Furnished 
Parlor for Use of Quests. 


APPLY TO MATRON IN ATTENDANCE. 


The Bowditch, owned by Mr. H. B. Shattuck, 
is one of the handsomest and most substantial build¬ 
ings in the city. It is constructed of Brick with 
Freestone trimmings, and is located in the centre of 
the city. The upper floors are divided and furnished, 
and the character of its guests shows that the pro¬ 
prietor has succeeded in establishing for it the repu¬ 
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been fitted up for same purpose, and has an elevator, 
bath rooms and electric lights, if desired. 


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LOWELL ANI) VICINITY OF TO-FAY. 


visits to the schools showed his devoted interest to the 
cause of education, and Dr. Elisha Huntington, a graduate 
of Dartmouth College, a man of high social and literary 
culture. 

The Town of Lowell continued the district svtsem 

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of schools from its incorporation, in 1S26, to 1S32, when 
the graded system now in vogue was adopted. In that 
year the school board voted to establish two large graded 
schools after the manner of the graded schools of Boston 
and Newburyport. To accomplish this object required 
the erection of two large school-houses at an expense of 
$20,000. 


first known as the South Grammar School, then as the 
First Grammar School and finally as the Edson School. 
The latter name is most appropriate, as the school is 
one of the two graded schools for which Rev. Dr. 
Edson so persistently fought. 

Joshua Merrill, who began to teach November 5, 
1827, was the first teacher in the Edson School, and 
the principals subsequently were Perley Balch, Ira 
Waldron and Calvin W. Burbank. 

The Bartlett School received its name from Dr. 
Elisha Bartlett, the first mayor of Lowell. 

The Green School was first opened in a brick build- 



MASTER BUILDERS’ EXCHANGE. 


In the town meeting held to consider the most im¬ 
portant subject, Rev. Dr. Edson, single-handed, advocated 
the expenditure, and won by eleven majority. A second 
town meeting was called to rescind the vote if possible, 
and Lawrence & Robinson, eminent attorneys, appeared 
for the opposition. The independent vote had time to 
do something between the two meetings, and the majority 
in favor of the change was increased to thirty-eight. 
The buildings now known as the Edson and Bartlett 
schools were then erected. 

February 23, 1S33, the pupils first occupied the 

building now known as the Edson School-house. It was 


ing in Middle Street, and when larger accommodations 
were needed in 1S71 the present elegant building in 
Merrimack Street was erected at a cost of $106,000. 
The school is named in honor of Dr. John O. Green, 
one of the members of the first school committee. 

The Moody Grammar School, established in 1S41, 
was named in honor of Paul Moody, one of the pioneers 
in the great manufacturing industries. 

The Colburn School-house was erected in 1848, and 
at the dedication, December 13th of that year, Rev. Dr. 
Edson delivered an address of great historical value. 

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of the “ Dracut Academy,” and was named in honor of 
Major-General Joseph B. Varnum. The school was 
opened in 1S51 in the upper room of the old Academy 
Building and the present edifice was first occupied in 
1857. 

The Franklin School-house was erected in 1S40, and 
was used for grammar school purposes until January 1, 
1SS2, when the Highland School-house was erected. 
People who did not have confidence enough in the future 
growth of Lowell looked upon the building as unneces¬ 
sary. It was only a few years when it was again found 


The Pawtucket School was erected in 1SS4 at an 
expense of nearly $53,000. It is the only grammar school 
house in Lowell which bears the Indian name of its 
location. 

Our High School was first opened in December, 
1 S31, under the principalship of Thomas M. Clarke, now 
Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island, in a small building 
on Middlesex and Elliott Streets. The new High School- 
house, to which reference is made elsewhere, will be 
occupied this fall. 

Previous to 1 SS5 free evening schools were main- 



LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL. 


necessary to use a portion of the Franklin School build¬ 
ing for grammar school pupils. Subsequently a four-room 
addition was made to the Highland School building to 
accommodate the pupils. 

The Mann School Building was erected in 1S3S for 
grammar school purposes and continued to be used as a 
day school until September, 1SS4. 

The Butler School, named in honor of Lowell’s late 
distinguished citizen, was erected in 1SS3, at an expense 
of about $56,000. 


tained in Lowell by the Lowell Missionary Association. 
It was decided in 1S55 to bring the schools under the 
supervision of the School Committee. After John A. 
Smith was elected a member of the School Committee 
in 18S0 he gave evening schools his special attention. 
When the day school rooms were freely opened for even¬ 
ing school pupils the attendance rapidly increased. In 
1SS5 Mr. Smith was elected supervisor of evening schools, 
and has rendered very efficient service since. The schools 
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CITY OF PERFUMERY, FANCY 
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LOWELL END VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


Three evening classes in drawing were formed in 
1S72, one in free hand, one in architectural and one in 
machine drawing. This free institution has continued 
with gratifying success and with increasing favor. 

There are twelve private schools in Lowell. These 
include the Parochial Schools which have been established 
under the auspices of four of the Catholic Churches. 

A Training School has long been established by tbe 
School Committee for the instruction of candidates Im¬ 


positions as teachers. The principal and her assistants 
are to report to the Committee on Teachers and Training 
School as to the aptness and ability of the candidates. 
Pupil-teachers who fail to receive the required rank can 
be re-admitted for another trial by a majority vote ot 
the committee on Teachers and Training School. Since 
the establishment of this school all teachers assigned 
positions have been graduates of the Training School. 
Th is school has been a great success. 


FIRE DEPARTMENT. 


L OWELL luck, as touching its continued immunity 
from extensive loss by fire, is proverbial throughout 
the state. It is not, however, upon that good fortune 
alone that Lowell depends for its excellent reputation as 
touching the safety of its property from extensive fires. 

To begin with, the City of Lowell possesses many 
natural advantages whose presence in the long run can¬ 
not but make themselves felt in the small total loss which 
it suffered annually. With but trifling exceptions, occur¬ 
ring in the safest districts in the city from a fireman’s 
point of view, Lowell has been built upon level ground, 
a fact that means the gain of valuable minutes in the 
prompt response of its fire department to an alarm in 
any part of the city. 

In addition to this advantage, the city has, when all 
its elements are taken into consideration, a water service 
that will compare only to its own advantage with that 
of any city in New England. What with its abundant 
and never failing city service and the almost innumerable 
canals in the district upon which the city stands, the 
city presents at every point of its wide extent a supply 
of water for fire-fighting that is not only inexhaustible, 
but readily available at any point. This abundance of 
water and the ease with which it can be handled, has 
enabled every corporation and manufacturing industry to 
introduce and maintain at its own expense its own private 
fire service. 

In view of these advantages, the city of Lowell is 
enabled to guarantee excellent protection from fire to her 
industries and her residents with what, regarded simply 
in a numerical sense, will pass as a small fire depart¬ 
ment. That the size of the fire department is, however, 
of secondary importance as compared with its system and 


activity, is plainly evident in the table of losses which 
Lowell has to present. 

The Active Fire Department of Lowell is made up 
of six steam fire engines, including two new and large 
machines which have been recently added. 

Around the Central Fire Station, in the very heart 
of the city, the other houses have been stationed so as 
to be as nearly equi-distant in their directions as possible. 
In the handling of its heavier apparatus, the department 
has wisely introduced the three-horse hitch, with excellent 
results in the matter of running time. 

In addition to the steam fire engines and their full 
equipments, the department comprises five hose companies, 
whose houses are so disposed as to form a larger circle 
outside that in which the steam engines are located. 
The most recent improvement in this part of the fire 
service has been the disbanding of the old hand-line 
companies and the replacing of them by house companies 
with all the latest equipments. 

The department has four hook and ladder companies, 
whose equipment includes a heavy Babcock truck and 
extension ladder; two chemical engines, and a protective 
wagon which responds to all alarms and is provided with 
a full equipment of extinguishers, folding ladders, covers, 
a Spencer canvas chute and a Dixon arrow gun. A 
water tower has recently been added to the apparatus, 
and this cannot fail to prove a most valuable addition. 
The work of this company since its introduction into the 
department lias been remarkable for its effective prompt¬ 
ness in response to alarms, and for the extent to which 
its efforts have prevented damage by water in small or 
badly located fires. 

The steamers of the department are manned by com- 


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LOWELL -ALL FACILITY OF TO-LAY. 



panies of twelve, five of whom are permanent firemen. 
The hose companies are composed of nine men each, 
three of whom are permanent. The hook and ladder 
companies have three, five and eight permanent men, 
respectively, with full companies of ten, twelve and thir¬ 
teen members. The protective company is made up of 
five permanent men. The apparatus of the department 
is well housed, being, 
with the single excep¬ 
tion of the hose carriage 
house in Ayer City, 
provided with substantial 
brick buildings, for the 
most part new, and in 
all cases fitted with the 
latest improvements for 
the work of the depart¬ 
ment. The Central Fire 
Station, erected at a 
cost of nearly $65,000, 
is justly regarded as a 
model of its kind, in 
the possession of which 
the city may well take 
a pardonable pride. 

The house itself is 
one of most imposing 
proportions, and is com¬ 
plete in all details. 

Probably it is one of 
the most convenient and 
modern in its appoint¬ 
ments of any similar 
house in New England. 

The firemen naturally 
take an interest in main¬ 
taining it at its present 
standard, and we doubt 
if there is any body of 
men who show a better 

appreciation of property left in their charge than the 
men of the Cential Fire Station. Here the headquarters 
of the signal service is located, and this department, by 
the way, is one of the test equipped in the State. It 
is well managed, well looked after, and the result is a 
most admirable and effective service. 

The Fire Alarm Telegraph Service consists of ninety- 


seven signal boxes with their hundred miles or more ot 
wires, all of which is under the care ot an electrician 
as the head of this sub-department. 1 he Gamewell signal 
sendee, which has also been recently introduced in the 
police department, is capable ot employmentin the fire 
alarm service. 

The record of losses by fire which Lowell has sus¬ 
tained during the last 
twenty years is indeed 
an excellent one, and one 
which signifies vastly 
more than a mere con¬ 
tinuance of good for¬ 
tune. It means a great 
deal to the business men 
of the City of Lowell, 
for it tends to make 
them feel a sense of 
security for the future 
against the great fire 
ravages which have laid 
low so many of our 
sister cities. Our city 
is to be congratulated, 
surely, in this important 
matter. 

The head of this 
department is Chief Ed¬ 
ward S. Hosmer, a fire¬ 
man who has learned 
his trade not from books 
or stories of other men’s 
work, but from an ex¬ 
perience of thirty-five 
years of service in the 
department of which he 
is now the head. Mr. 
Hosmer was born in 
Lowell in 1S3S, and first 
joined the department in 
May, 1S56. Excepting a period of three years, he has 
since been in continuous sendee in the department. He 
was made assistant engineer in 1S72, and was first ap¬ 
pointed chief of the department in 1SS5, holding that 
position for two terms of one year each. Mr. Hosmer was 
again appointed chief of the department in iSSS, the term 
of office having been changed from one to three years. 









































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LOWELL, MASS. 

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LOWE LI, LEE VICINITY OF TO-ELY. 


POLICE DEPARTMENT. 


T HE organization of the Police Department upon its 
present basis came necessarily and naturally with 
the incorporation of Lowell as a city, in May, 1S36. 
The city employs a large and well disciplined force, 
which performs its work with the aid of more than a 
fair share of the ecpiipment and conveniences of modern 
suggestion. The Headquarters of the Police Department, 
together with its Court, a City Dispensary and the offices 
of one or two minor city officials, are located in the 
Market Building on Market Street, one hundred yards 
from Central, at the very heart of the city. A part of 
this building was formerly used as an armory and the 
rooms vacated by the military companies have been util¬ 
ized to provide recreative and sleeping accommodations 
for the members of the force. 

The department is conducted in accordance with the 
regulations of the civil service, and the force is made 
up in a large degree of young and active officers reduced 
to a fine state of discipline and efficiency under the 
guidance of the higher police officials who have made 
police work a life-long study. 

As a general characteristic the administration of the 
police department of Lowell is energetic and at the same 
time governed by a wholesome conservatism that rarelv 
allows and never countenances any course of action which 
places the department in a false light. 

Among the other good qualities the department is 
possessed of a remarkably successful detective force, the 

WATER 

HE public water service of Lowell is one of the 
most important of the municipal institutions. Up 
to the time of the introduction of the present system of 
water supply for the city, it had depended upon a supply 
furnished from the Locks and Canals Company, and from 
other private sources. 

The life of the present system dates from an act of 
the Legislature of the year 1S55. Under this act and still 
another act of the year 1866, giving additional power, 
together with the minor acts of later date, the present 
system of Water Works was constructed. The Board of 
Water Commissioners was elected and organized January 


services of which are of such a nature as to inspire a 
wholesome fear in the minds of such evildoers as may 
come within its jurisdiction. 

The Police Telephone and Signal System has alreadv 
proved of great service to the department, and with the 
extension of which it is capable, it will serve to put 
off the time when an extension of the district to be 
patrolled and a growth of the population will necessitate 
the division of the city into districts each with its separate 
station house. 

The Police Department as shown by its record for 
the past year, has never been at a higher point of dis¬ 
cipline and efficiency than at present. 

Chief of Police Charles Howard is probably one of 
the most widely known police officials in the State. Mr. 
Howard was born in Lowell in 1842 and entered the 
service of the department in 1871. He was appointed 
sergeant in iSSi and promoted to the rank of captain 
January 9, 1SS2. In this capacity he served until March, 
1S90, when he was appointed deputy chief. He has been 
chief since 1891. 

Chief Howard has ever shown himself an energetic 
and conscientious officer in the discharge of the duties 
of the various positions in the service which he has 
been called upon to fill, and his appointment to the 
highest office of the department which he has so long 
and so faithfully served is regarded with complete satis¬ 
faction by both political parties. 


WORKS. 

2S, 1S70, and the construction of the Water Works occu¬ 
pied about three years under the supervision of this 
board. 

The plan which was finally adopted as the best, 
when all things were taken into consideration, consisted 
of a supply from the Merrimack River. 

The pumping plant comprises at present two power¬ 
ful engines, one of which has not only an interesting 
history, but a proud record in actual service, as well. 

In 1872, Henry J. Morris of Philadelphia built an 
engine for the Spring Garden Water Works of that city, 
which attracted the attention of the Lowell engineers on 



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LOWELL, MASS., 


Successor to C. T. Chamberlain, 


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WARER00MS-23 PRESCOTT STREET. 
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ARE THOROUGHLY CLEANED AND STEAMED. 



We take up, clean, steam, make over and lay carpets. Hair mattresses 
and feather beds renovated by steam. 


Lowell Steam Carpet Cleaning Works, 

No. 12 WEED STREET, 


GEO. MADDOCKS, Proprietor. 


Office and Warerooms, 6 Harket Street, 

LOWELL, MASS. 


Open Day and Night. 


Telephone 238=3. 


PARKER & BASSETT, 



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PAPER. 


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We employ no agents, send direct to the Works. 
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LOWELL EKE VICINITY OF TO- DA Y. 


account of the results obtained from a small expenditure 
of coal. This engine was guaranteed to raise 75,000,000 
lbs. of water one foot on 100 lbs. of coal, but in the 
tests made far exceeded that strength. The guaranteed 
capacity of such an engine was five millions of gallons 
per day, while the daily average consumption of Lowell 
at that time was only about 500,000 gallons. 

Opinions differed as to the advisability of ordering 


Mr. Morris built the engine at a cost of $75,000 to 
the City of Lowell, and lost $jo,ooo by the operation. 
Shortly after its completion, in the year 1S73, the Morris 
Works were burned and the patterns were destroyed. 
The Spring Garden engine, after which the Lowell engine 
was built, has long ago been broken up, leaving the 
Lowell engine the only one of its kind in existence. 

As totally unlike this engine as it is possible, and 



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so powerful a machine; but in the end the wiser opinion 
of the engineers prevailed and an order was given for 
the construction of a similar engine. The original Morris 
engine was the first high duty engine of any importance 
that had been constructed in this country ; but the Lowell 
machine was made its undoubted superior by important 
changes in its valve gear, at the suggestion of one of the 
Lowell engineers. 


still be a pumping engine, is the Worthington engine 
which stands by its side. The Worthington is a hori¬ 
zontal engine of the same guaranteed capacity as its big 
neighbor, and was set up as a relief engine in 1877. 
Its cost was only $36,000. 

The increase in the amount of water consumed each 
day since the Morris engine was built has been enor¬ 
mous. In 1S73, the daily average consumption was 

















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Florists and Floral Decorators, 

No. 43 Merrimack Street, 

LOWELL, MASS. 

TELEPHONE. 


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Best ©cobs! 

largest Stock ! 

Hlways afresh ! 


Teas, Coffees and Fancy Groceries 

A SPECIALTY. 

Attention, Housekeepers! Our Motto--' The best goods at 
the lowest prices, and one price to all.” 

A. W. DERBYSHIRE & CO., Proprietors, 


No. 5 Prescott Street, Lowell, Mass. 


F. R. CORDLEY & CO., 


MURPHY & BINGHAM, 


Bankers and 



Brokers, 



MEMBERS NEW YORK, BOSTON AND 

CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGES. 


BOARDING, BAITING, 
SALE AND 


Livery Stable 


206 to 210 Middlesex Street. 


NEAR THE NORTHERN DEPOT, 


LOWELL, MASS. 


Commission orders for Stocks, Bonds, Grain and Cotton 
executed in all markets. 


_ ACCOMMODATION FOR 125 HORSES 


66 STATE STREET, 
BOSTON. 


14 CENTRAL STREET, 
LOWELL. 

CHAS. N. WOODWARD, Manager. 


First-Class Livery in all its branches. 

Parties wishing to engage carriages for Funerals, Weddings, 
Balls, Receptions, &c., will And it to their advantage to call and 
see us before engaging elsewhere. 

K3" Black Horses for Funeral Work a specialty. 

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LOWELL END "VICINITY OF TO-LAY. 


511,474 gallons; in 1S76, when the Worthington was 
introduced it had risen to 1,488,950 gallons; while at 
the present time it exceeds several millions of gallons. 
Nine millions of gallons have been drawn from the 
reservoir in a single period of twenty-four hours. 

In accordance with a warning derived from two 
instances, in which both engines have been temporarily 
incapacitated for duty and in obedience to a continually 
ncreasing demand upon the water supply, the city has 
added a second Worthington engine of 12,000,000 gallons 
capacit3*. 

The Water Works comprise two enormous reservoirs 
located in the highlands of Centralville. The reservoir 
first built and which has proven itself of sufficient capac¬ 
ity and elevation to supply the whole city, except 

certain portions of Centralville and Belvidere, is situated 
on the east side of Beacon Street, at the head of Sixth. 
The reservoir basin is in itself five hundred and twenty 
feet long, five hundred and ten feet wide and twenty-four 

feet deep at high water mark, which is four feet below 

the top of the embankment. This reservoir contains, at 
high water mark, 30,000,000 gallons, or enough to supply 


the city for a week at its present rate of consumption. 
The reservoir has a large relative elevation to the main 
level of the city and an absolute elevation of 181.5 feet. 

In addition to this source of the city’s supply, a 
second, or high service reservoir, was constructed in 18S1 
on the hill above the general reservoir. The capacity of 
the high service reservoir is 1,500,000 gallons and its 
elevation 253.5 f ee b 

With a desire to give her citizens the purest water 
possible, the city has at great expense had scores of 
wells sunk on the outskirts which are now in process 
of connection with the main pipes, and in a short 
time the new supply wall be served. The water has 
been thoroughly tested both as to quantity and quality, 
with most satisfactory results. 

The Water Works are controlled, in accordance with 
an amended ordinance of 18SS, by a Water Board of 
five members, to be elected each year, by concurrent 
vote of the City Council, one from the Board of Aider- 
men and four others, who shall be citizens holding no 
other municipal office, one being chosen each year tor a 
term of four years. 


CITY LIBRARY. 


W HAT is now known and appreciated as the City 
Library of Lowell, had its beginning in the City 
School Library, which came into existence under an 
ordinance of the City Council, passed May 20, 1S44. 

The City Library of Lowell is one of the few 
institutions of its kind which owes its origin solely to 
municipal action. 

Established at first in pursuance of certain resolves 
of the State Legislature, authorizing cities and towns to 
establish and maintain school libraries, this institution has, 
from the opening of its doors on February 11, 1S45, 
occupied a much wider field of usefulness than that 
which was comprehended in the idea which led to its 
foundation. In the year 1S60, this feature of its exist¬ 
ence had become so widely recognized that an ordinance 
was passed changing the name to that of City Library, 
which, in the process of incorporation, became changed 
to the present legal title of the institution, City Library 
of Lowell. 


After one previous attempt in 1S7S, a nominal annual 
fee of fifty cents for the privileges of the library was 
abolished in 1SS3, and it thus became an absolutely free 
institution. In the same year the library established its 
first free reading room, which was followed fiye years 
later by the establishment of a special free reading room 
for women. Both of these adjuncts to the work of the 
library have been uniformly successful in affording: the 
best of facilities to the large numbers of both sexes who 
have availed themselves of the privileges thus placed 
within their reach. 

With the accession of Mayor Palmer in iSSS, came 
the final act which made the City Library thoroughly an 
institution of the people, and removed from it the last 
trace of the influence of political management and in¬ 
terference. An act of the Legislature passed in that year 
incorporated a Board of Trustees for the Library, com¬ 
posed of the Mayor, ex-officio, and five other citizens, 
by him appointed with the approval of the Board of 



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Aldermen. To these Trustees, each holding office for five 
years, one retiring annually, was committed the entire 
management of the affairs of the library. 

In proportion to the development of its advantages, 
the library has continued to grow in size and usefulness 
under the guidance of wise selections from among Lowell’s 
most prominent citizens to be its Trustees, until the recent 
reverse inflicted upon it by the damage from fire to its 


considered complete until it should present ample provi¬ 
sions for that need. 

The new building erected with the double purpose 
of commemorating Lowell’s dead soldiers and furnishing 
ample quarters for the City Library, will compare favor¬ 
ably in appearance and appointments with the other library 
buildings of the state. 

The occupation of this new building adds a new 



CENTRAL FIRE STATION. 


quarters, found it with 45,000 well-selected volumes upon 
its shelves, including a carefully selected reference library, 
and an annual circulation of about 115,000 volumes. 

For several years the City of Lowell has recognized 
the pressing need of more commodious accommodations 
for this most useful of all its public institutions, and no 
plan for the utilization of the City Hall lot had been 


and important element to the usefulness and accessibilitv 
of the City Library. 

At no time since the opening of this library has its 
opportunities been so eagerly availed of by all classes, 
it now stands one of the first libraries in our state and 
Is very ably conducted. 









TYLER PARK 



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LOWELL. 




AT 

Moderate Cost. 

D. E. DUDLEY, 

16 Hildreth Building. 


GEOGRAPHY. 


Where is Merrimack Street ? In Lowell. 

What is the most important industry on the street? The Goodyear Gossamer Co. 

Where is the Goodyear Co. located ? Between Central and Palmer Sts., and 
bounded by Middle St. 

What is the number ? 66 and 68. 

Do they sell cheap? Well, ‘'Iguess yes." They sell everything in Rubber and 
at prices that will astonish you, they are so low. 


5. J. EMERSON, Manager. 































































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SHAW STOCKING COMPANY. 
































Shaw Stocking 1 Company. ~ 

T his great concern, known by its outputs in the markets of the world, was established by the 
late Benjamin Franklin Shaw, the inventor of the famous Shaw Stocking and Loom, and the 
business, which has attained vast proportions, was under his management until his death, Dec. 
ii, 1S90, when he was succeeded by the present manager, Mr. Geo. L. Hooper, who for a number 
of years was in the employ of the company as salesman, and to whom is largely due the wonderful 
success achieved. The company was incorporated in October, 1S77, with a capital stock of $30,000, 
and began operations with eight of the Shaw looms in limited quarters on Broadway. 

The Introduction of the Shawknit Goods 


marked an immediate revolution in the hosiery trade, and the demand for the goods soon outgrew the 
facilities for supply, making imperative the increase of productive capacity. In February, 1S79, the capital 
stock was increased to $160,000, land was purchased, a factory was erected, looms were built and set up, and 
Jan. 1st, 1SS0, the new plant was put in operation. In May following the capital slock was again increased, 
this time to $240,000, and in May, 1SS6, was again increased to $360,000, and extensive additions and 
enlargements were made ; and to keep pace with the demand for the product frequent additions of importance 
were made subsequent!}', until 1892, when a new brick mill 251^x75 feet in size, two stories and basement, a 
new brick boiler house =>5x47 feet in size, and a new chimney 150 feet in height were erected. The new mill, 
built in accordance with the principles of modern mill engineering, high posted and heated by the hot ait- 
system, is a substantial and commodious structure and provides for an increase of 50 °Jc in production, for which 
looms are now in process of construction. The dimensions of the old mill building are 40x240 feet, a two 
story and basement brick structure, supplemented by three buildings 40 x 70 feet and 30x80 feet and 50x^0 
feet in dimensions, respectively 

The plant now being completed will employ about 700 operatives, with a capacity of over 4,000,000 pairs 
of stockings per annum, ranking this as one of the largest mills ot its kind in the country. The product com¬ 
prises fifty different styles and kinds of hosiery for men, boys and misses, made from the best woollen, merino 
and cotton yarns, in medium coarse, medium fine and extra fine grades, and the facilities of the company are 
taxed to the utmost to supply the demand for their famous “ Shawknit” goods, which for comfort, attractiveness 
and durability are unequalled in the markets of the country. 

Paradoxical as it may appear, 

the only complaint on the part of the trade in regard to the Shawknit goods is, that “ they wear too long.” 
So great was the demand springing up in every direction for these goods that an impulse was given to the 
production of seamless goods in a variety of unsatisfactory forms, and the sale of these inferior goods—inferior in 
both quality and fit—is enormous, there being so many who have never known the luxury and economy of the 
Shawknit goods, and who appear to be indifferent as to what they wear on their feet. Merit, however, is telling, 
and no matter what may be the fate of inferior products, the clearly indicated result with respect to the 
Shawknit is the “ Survival of the Fittest.” The genuine goods have the name “ Shawknit” stamped on the 
toe, and no one need be deceived by imitations. 

The trade of the company is exclusively with dealers and jobbers, and extends to all markets, north, south, 
east and west, and among the many notably large contributors to the great aggregate of business in Lowell, the 
Shaw Stocking Company is recognized as one of the largest and most promising industries. 

The valuable patents of Mr. Shaw were unsuccessfully contested in England, where the inventor intro¬ 
duced his looms some years ago, and where they are now extensively used. 

The efficient manager of the company is Mr. Geo. L. Hooper, and the Board of Directors consists of the 
following named progressive and successful business men : President, Frank J. Dutcher : Treasurer and Clerk, 
Josiah Butler; Earl A. Thissell, J. Herbert Sawyer, Freeman B. Shedd, Geo. A. Draper, E. W. Thomas and 
\y. S. Southworth. The management of the affairs of the company is characterized by that energy and tact 
which inspires fullest confidence in the continued success and increased usefulness of this great and growing 
enterprise. 








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LOYIELD and vicinity of to-day. 


HOSPITALS. 


L OWELL has three well equipped hospitals, the use¬ 
fulness of which become more apparent as the 
population increases. The first of these, known as the 
Lowell, or Corporation Hospital, was established in 1S39 
for the use of persons employed by the various corpora¬ 
tions of the city. The location of this hospital is one 
of the finest for its purpose in the city, being upon high 
ground overlooking Merrimack River. The management 
ot this hospital is vested in a Board of Trustees composed 
of the local agents of the various corporations, together 
with two other citizens, one of whom shall be the Mayor 
of the city. Since 1SS1 the hospital has been in charge 
of a staff of visiting physicians and surgeons, who give 
their services gratuitously. 

The hospital buildings are commodious and well ar¬ 
ranged and furnish ample accommodation for about fifty 
patients a } r ear, exclusive of its out-patien department 
established in 1S77, which is conducted under its separate 
staff and which is made accessible not only to the em¬ 
ployes of the corporations, but to the general poor of 
he city. 

St. John’s Hospital is an efficient institution, estab¬ 
lished in 1S66 by Sister Emerentiana at the suggestion 
of the Bishop of the Diocese, and operated under the 
supervision of the order of the Sisters of Charity. From 
small beginnings, this hospital has grown in size, as it 
has been obliged to meet the increasing demands upon 
its services. 

The hospital accommodates about one hundred house 
patients, and treats from four to five hundred patients a 
year. Three times that number are treated in its out¬ 
patient department, which is conducted, as in the case 
of the Lowell Hospital, under a staff' especially appointed 
for that work. 

The hospital is to-day supported by the contributions 
of the public. It knows no creed nor color; nor are its 
doors ever closed upon the poor. Of the whole number 


of patients treated since it was established, nearly two- 
thirds have been charity patients. It is to all intents 

and purposes a City Hospital, and all cases of accident, 
other than those which occur in the mills, are taken there 
for treatment. The staff' includes the foremost physicians 
and surgeons in the city, who give their services gratui¬ 
tously. The institution is of brick, located in Belvidere, 

and finely equipped. 

In connection with the hospital two free dispensaries 
are maintained. The Lowell Dispensary was incorporated 
in 1S36, and is maintained by a fund derived from 
private contributions and from membership fees The 

annual income of this fund is devoted to the purchase 
of medicines for the relief of the worthy sick poor. 

The City Dispensary, established by ordinance in 
1S79, is supported by an annual appropriation of $1000 
for the distribution of medicines to the sick poor. Twelve 
physicians are chosen to serve for one year. In 1SS9, 
1S37 prescriptions were compounded. The institution is 
conducted under the supervision of the Overseers of the 
Poor. 

This department also maintains an efficient ambulance 
service, with its physician especially appointed. The 
value of this service has proven itself so great that the 

City will undoubtedly increase its facilities by the addition 

of a second ambulance within a short time. 

The third and last established of our hospitals occu¬ 
pies a commanding and beautiful site in Pawtucketville, 
formerly the estate of Miss Fay. It overlooks the city, 
is lavish in area, and is in every way designed to work 
out a great blessing to those of our people who may 
need its succor from time to time. This hospital is 
peculiarly a people’s institution, beds having been pro¬ 
vided by individual bounty, and all its interests being 

cared for by officers elected from among our prominent 

people. It is one of Lowell’s most prominent charities. 


THE CITY OF THE DEAD. 


T HE “resting places” of Lowell’s dead, consecrated 
spots in our very midst, ever reminding us of the 
uncertainty of our earthly existence, are six in number, 
four of them being located on the southerly outskirts of 


the city. There have been other cemeteries within its 
boundaries in the early days of the city, whose small 
area, becoming encroached upon by the growth of the 
city, have finally been taken up as residential sites after 


J. W. BENNETT & CO., 


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FELT, COMPOSITION 
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SELF-FEEDING STALL 
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CARPENTERING, 


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292 Middlesex Street, 


LOWELL. MASS. 


New England 
Bunting Co. 

E. S. HYLAN , . . . PROPRIETOR. 

MANUFACTURER OF 

FINE WORSTED DRESS GOODS. 
ALL-WORSTED AND COTTON LAP. DUSTERS, 
BUNTINGS AND FLAGS. 







LOWELL, 


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. . . DYE HOUSE.... 


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Ladies and Gents’ Clothing of every description dyed and cleaned. 
Gents’ Coats, Pants or Vests dyed or cleaned. 

Ladies’ Dresses, Sacks or Shawls dyed or cleaned. 

Ladies’ Ribbons and Laces dyed in the best manner. 

Ladies’ Dresses dyed whole and pressed. 

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Nos. 2 and 4 Andover Street. 

OPENED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT WEDNESDAY TILL 9 O’CLOCK. 





























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FOJYFFY anjd YICINITY OF TO-I)A y. 


the cemetery itself has been condemned. Of these the 
incomplete state of the city’s records in the early days 
has prevented the gathering of statistics relative to the 
opening of, area, and number of graves in each, making 
a history of Lowell’s cemeteries quite incomplete. Of the 
early cemeteries, that condemned in 1S46, located in East 
Merrimack, just above the junction of Nesmith and Alder 
streets, was probably the oldest, and in it undoubtedly 
were interred the bodies of the pioneers who cleared 
the land on what is now the city. This cemetery was 


originally owning the lots there have been no interments 
for nearly a decade. At periods a movement arises to 
have the cemetery condemned, on sanitary grounds, 
but the opposition likely to arise from lot owners pre¬ 
cludes vigorous forwarding of that plan. 

The oldest cemetery, of which the opening date is 
known, is what is now called No. 2 yard, or the Old 
Lowell Burying Ground, the first grave in which was 
opened on August 15, 1S35. ^ ‘ s l° ca t e d on Gorham 

street directly opposite the Fair Grounds, and is of lim- 



VIEW OX THE MERRIMACK. 


condemned by the City Council in 1S46, and the last body 
removed to the Lowell Cemetery in the summer of 1S47. 
Another cemetery, of small area, of whose earl}' history 
there is no record, is the School Street Burying Ground, 
containing less than half an acre, which, half a century 
ago, was used by a few prominent and wealthy families 
as a private cemetery. With the inception of other 
places, however, many lots passed into other hands until 
no more graves could be opened. With the exception 
of interments in family lots of members of the family 

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ited area, barely exceeding an acre. There have been 
but few interments, and those only in family lots, the 
past decade. For a long period the place was neglected 
but now its appearance is that of a well kept and care¬ 
fully looked after garden. 

Adjoining it on the south is the Catholic Cemetery, 
of large area, and beyond it the Edson Cemetery, owned 
by the city, comprising about fourteen acres of land, ex¬ 
tending to the Chelmsford line. This cemeterv was 
opened in September, 1S46, after the city had authorized 














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Magnificent Display of 
CARPETS. 


All the Novelties in 
DRAPERIES. 

Large Line of 
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Warerooms, 3 to 15 Prescott Street, Southwick Block. 


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the purchase of a small tract of land. The first inter¬ 
ment was in the following December. The Edson Cem¬ 
etery is a beautiful place, and though the city has not 
lavished a very large sum upon it, there is a stone 
chapel ot quaint architecture just inside the main entrance. 
The land is quite level and the careful way in which 
the paths and avenues have been laid out makes the 
place pleasing to the eye. 

The largest cemetery is the Lowell, with its eighty- 
foui acres ot land, at the foot of the southerly slope 
ot Fort Hill Park, the main entrance into which is from 
Lawrence street, nearly opposite the railway station of 


sell and hold real estate, and accordingly nine and a half 
acres of land were purchased. The new purchase is 
now being laid out, and it is to have an entrance from 
Rogers street in Belvidere. The Lawrence street entrance 
is through a magnificent granite gate, surmounted by a 
bell presented the corporation in 1SS6 by Mrs. Hocum 
Hosford, as a memorial to her husband, the late ex- 
Mayor Hocum Hosford. There is also the chapel, a 
structure which in itself adds much to the beauty of the 
grounds. Among the memorials are many imported 
statues and designs in carved marble. Among the most 
notable will be the colossal marble lion, designed and 



THE NEW ARMORY. 


the Boston & Maine Railroad. In the cemetery are the 
evidences of the expenditure of a vast amount of wealth. 
There are magnificent monuments and memorials almost 
without number, and the natural beauties of the place 
have been greatly enhanced by the skill of the architect, 
the engineer and the gardener. The cemetery is owned 
by a corporation, chartered in 1841, and the management 
is vested in a board of trustees. 

There are about 16,000 graves in the cemetery, and 
the demand for lots is always vigorous. Last year, by 
an act of legislature, the corporation was allowed to buy, 


sculptured by Mr. Joy in his London studio, and which 
is to be placed in the family lot of J. C. Ayer. 

The officers of the corporation are: Charles L. 
Knapp, president; John H. Me Alvin, treasurer; L. R. J. 
Varnum, A. A. Coburn, D. M Prescott, C. D. Starbird, 
Francis Jewett, August Fels, A. A. Blanchard, C. A. 
Stott, W. II. Wiggin, II. II. Wilder, G. L. Hildreth 
and Z. E. Stone, trustees; Robert II. Mulno, superin¬ 
tendent. 

The last cemetery to be mentioned is called by the 
family name of those who are the principal lot holders 




































































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Nos. 29 and 31 MARKET STREET, 


LOWELL, MASS. 


The business is both wholesale and retail ; deals in 
Crackers of all kinds, Home-Made Bread, Cakes, English 
Pork Pies, Pastry and Fancy Biscuit. 


Mr. Severance is Sole Agent for 


E. S. SHERMAN. 


E. E. LINNELI.. 


C. D. BOSS & SON’S 
CELEBRATED LUNCH MILK BISCUIT. 

H e has been fourteen years in the business, and in 
his present location since 18S5, and employs 13 hands. 

LOWELL, MASS. 


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D. H. WILSON & CO., 

64 and 65 Dutton Street, Ltoouell, Mass. 



STEAM AND 
GAS FITTERS, 


SANITARY ENGINEERS, COPPERSMITHS, 


MANUFACTURERS OF 


Slasher Cylinders, Silk and Dresser Cylinders, Color and 
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LOVIFLIj A-NID VICINITY OF TO-1)I V. 


— The Hildreth Burying Ground. It is the smallest of 
the cemeteries and is on Hildreth street in Centralville. 
Here are interred the remains of members of the Hildreth 
family, and of a few of the earliest residents of that 
section before it became a part of the city. Here also 
is the family lot of our late distinguished townsman, 
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. There are no evidences of 
wealth in the appearance of its gravestones; it is the 


fac simile of a country burial place in the midst ot a 
district which is rapidly being built over by houses of 
the working people. 

Such are the cemeteries of the city — the places set 
apart for the distinct and particular purpose of burying 
the dead; the places held sacred — where the living may 
visit to hold communion in sweet memories and visions 
of the past. 



CENTRAL STREET. 


PLEASURE 

OWELL is peculiarly favored in the advantages it 
enjoys for recreation and natural pleasure. It is 
built on both sides of the picturesque Merrimack, where 
it rushes through the gorge of mica schist and gneiss. 
Its banks are high and clothed with trees, and here as 
at Indian Orchard, are most delightful bits of sequestered 
shade. 


RESORTS. 

The Concord River, so placid and so classical, also 
flows through Lowell, and is no less picturesque in its 
way than the Merrimack, with which it is wedded. 

These two rivers afford a never ending and never 
wearying source of healthful pleasure. The Merrimack 
flows through a piney region, and there are a number 
of steamers licensed to carry passengers. Some of these 































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LOWEST GUT PRICES 
ON ALL PATENT MEDICINES. 


WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF LEMON AND 
VANILLA EXTRACTS, WHICH ARE 
EQUAL TO ANYTHING IN 
THE WORLD. 



CALDERWOOD & ROBBINS, 


WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 

Cigars,Tobacco and Pipes. 

This old. reliable house its enabled to furnish the trade with all the popular 
brands of Cigars and. Tobaccos at the lowest cash prices as it buys all its 
goods for SJIAHjP CA.SU. 


FINE CIGARS A SPECIALTY. 


No. 33 Merrimack Street, Post Office Block, 


LOWELL, MASS. 

























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DO VIHDD A NT) VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


ensures a ride of ten miles in the electric cars through 

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a beautiful country, with free dancing every afternoon and 
evening. No intoxicating liquors permitted on the place. 

Haggett’s Pond in Andover is five miles from Lowell. 
It is exceedingly popular with small parties. 

Nabnassett .Pond in Chelmsford, four miles away, is 
a beautiful sheet of water, and is quite popular with 
picnic parties. Other picnic resorts within easy distance 
of Lowell are Baptist Pond, Long Pond, Canobie Lake, 
Silver Lake and Shawsheen Grove. Robin’s Hill in 
Chelmsford affords a fine view of the surrounding 
country. 

But Lowell is within an hour’s ride of the sea 
shore and Boston is only forty-five minutes’ away. Lake 
^ innepesaukee can be reached in two hours, and one 
may dine in Lowell and eat supper at the Fabyan House 
the same night. 

But while Nature is generous, Art is not unmindful. 
Fort Hill Park is unique, and unlike any other park in 
New England. The hill has an elevation of 200 feet 


SEMI-PUBLIC 

N addition to the City Library, which has been de¬ 
scribed elsewhere, Lowell is well provided with other 
libraries of a semi-private nature. 

Chief among them is the library of the Middlesex 
Mechanics Association. The founding of this society is 
an excellent sample of the spirit of self-help and social 
and educational advancement, which has always been mani¬ 
fest among the masses of Lowell’s population. The 
association was founded, as an association of mechanics 
only, in 1S25. 

The library embraces upwards of 24,000 carefully 
selected volumes, maintains a reading room, and is in¬ 
creased annually from an appropriation of about $500. 
The association owns a considerable collection of portraits. 

This library is under the supervision of Miss Abby 
Sargent, and its privileges are enjoyed by a large number 
of subscribers. The annual fee is a nominal one of $5- 

The library of the Middlesex North Agricultural So¬ 
ciety, consisting ot about 400 volumes, treating mainly of 
agricultural subjects, has in recent years been made a 
part of the Mechanics Library. 

The library of the Young Men’s Catholic Association 


above the level of the rivers, and the prospect is a fine 
one. The park was the gift of Miss Elizabeth Rogers. 
The North and South Commons are quite roomy breath¬ 
ing places, and Park Garden beautifies Belvidere. 

The Lowell Opera House is without a peer. It 
was built in 1SS9 by Fay Bros. & Hosford at a cost 
of $ too,ooo. It seats 1500 people and is a model of 
beauty. Its conveniences are such as modern comfort 
demands. It is lighted throughout with electricity, and 
the stage appointments will compare very favorably with 
those of any metropolitan theatre. The lessee and man¬ 
ager is Mr. John F. Cosgrove. 

Music Hall is a cosy and comfortable theatre, where 
plays are performed at popular prices. The present 
lessees are Thomas & Watson. They give nightly per¬ 
formances and employ a stock company. 

The Bijou Theatre, under the management of Mr. Abe 
Spitz, has proved a thoroughly successful venture. Variety 
performances are given daily and thousands of our people 
attest to the pleasure they have received there. 


LIBRARIES. 

contains in the neighborhood of 1200 volumes, selected 
mainly with reference to the needs and tastes of the 
members of that association. 

The Mathew and Burke Temperance Institutes each 
maintain a library for the use of its members. These 
collections are made up from standard works of fiction ; 
history, biography, general literature, also form a part. 

The Young Men’s Christian Association possesses 
about 1000 volumes, together with standard books of 
reference and a reading 100m. This library is one that 
is fast increasing, not only in the number of its volumes 
but in its general usefulness as well. 

The People’s Club maintains a library of some 1600 
volumes, which are divided for use between the men’s 
and women’s branches of that club. The club supports 
two reading rooms, and its library is much used. 

The library of the Old Residents’ Historical Asso¬ 
ciation is fast becoming an invaluable collection of infor¬ 
mation concerning matters pertaining to Lowell and its 
early history. This library now numbers something like 
600 volumes, including a collection of papers read at the 
quarterly meetings of that association. 


Lowell Wall Paper Co., 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 

Paper Hangings and Mouldings. 




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ABBOT & COMPANY. 


T HIS extensive enterprise has long been one of the 
greatest of Massachusetts industries. The business 
was established in 1S55 by Messrs. John W. Abbot, J. 
W. P. Abbot & Co., and G. Sargent. Two years later 
the interests of the two last named partners were pur¬ 
chased by Mr. Allan Cameron, and in 1S76 Mr. Abiel 
Abbot was admitted to an interest in the business, 


with 12,513 feet of floor area, with a capacity of 1,000,000 
lbs. of wool. The mill buildings at Forge Village are 
five in number, with aggregate floor surface of 47,786 
feet and three store houses with a floor area of 17,540 
square feet, with a capacity of 1,200,000 lbs. of wool. 
The machinery at Graniteville is operated by both water 
and steam, of 125 and 225 horse power respectively, and 



ABBOT & CO.’S MILLS, FORGE VILLAGE. 


the proprietors under the firm name of Abbot & Co., 
being Allan Cameron, John W. arid Abiel J. Abbot. 
The mills of the firm are located at Graniteville and 
Forge Village, in the town of Westford The plant at 
the former place comprises four extensive mill buildings 
with 43,15s feet of floor space, and four store houses 


a force of 175 employees are engaged in these works. 
Both water and steam power of 160 and 450 horse 
power respectively, is also employed at Forge Village, 
and 200 persons are here employed. The business was 
originally carried on entirely at Graniteville, and so 
great was the increase of their trade, that to meet the 



















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growing wants of their trade the firm was obliged in 
1S79 to purchase the buildings and water power at Forge 
Village, which were formerly used by the Forge Village 
Hoosac Nail Company. Mr. J. W. Abbot is in charge 
of the Company’s affairs at Forge Village, and Mr. A. J. 
Abbot at Graniteville, while Mr Cameron gives his at¬ 
tention to the buying and selling, and manages the finan¬ 
cial affairs of the concern. 

The manufactures comprise worsted and woolen yarns, 


mense trade, which ranks this concern as one of the 
most important in this field of industrial enterprise in 
this country. The agents of this concern are the wool 
brokers at Liverpool, Marseilles, Russia, near the Black 
Sea, Smyrna, Palestine, Buenos Ayres, Scotland, Valpar¬ 
aiso, Bagdad and Moscow. Cablegrams are received al¬ 
most daily from Liverpool, giving the market prices of 
wool in all parts of the world, greatly facilitating the 
business by this means. Messrs. Abbot & Co. were 



ABBOT & CO.’S MILLS, GRANITEVILLE. 


manufactured from wool and camels’ hair, and used for 
Wiltons, Brussels, Tapestry and Ingrain Carpets. The 
output of this concern aggregates 2,400,000 lbs. of 
worsted and woolen yarns, and the trade extends to all 
carpet manufacturing centres throughout New England 
and the Middle States. In quality as in variety of its 
goods, Messrs. Abbot & Co. are successful competitors 
of all manufactures in this line of goods, and the 
standard excellence of their product has built up an im- 


the first in this line to use camels’ hair for worsted 
yarns and used it in their business for three years before 
any of the other manufacturers in this country were 
aware of it. 

The relations of this firm with their employees are 
of the most cordial nature. Messrs. Abbot & Co. are 
ever zealous to promote the welfare of their workmen, 
some who have been in their employ for 2^ years. Every 
one with a family is encouraged to own his own home. 










TALBOT MILLS —(FRONT VIEW). 



TALBOT MILLS—(REAR VIEW) 






















ESTABLISHED 1857. 


INCORPORATED 1884. 


Talbot* Mills, 

IRovtb Billerica, /Ibass. 

SOLOMON LINCOLN, President. FREDERIC S. CLARK, Treasurer. 

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FLANNELS, &c. 


Woollen Manufacturers. 


20 SETS CAROS, 


10,240 SPINDLES. 


178 BROAD LOOMS. 


SELLING SCENTS: 

PARKER, WILDER & CO., 

BOSTON AND NEW YORK. 












FAULKNER MANUFACTURING COMPANY—(FRONT VIEW). 



FAULKNER MANUFACTURING COMPANY—(REAR YIEW) 


















































Paulkner Manufacturing Co., 



ESTABLISHED 1811. 


INCORPORATED 1880. 


GEO. M. PRESTON, President and Treasurer, Boston. 
W. A. EVANS, Agent. 




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Run 8 sets of Cards and 58 Broad Looms. 
Engine, 120 Horse Power. 

Employ about 95 Hands. Pay Fridays. 


Selling Agents: Faulkner, Page & Co., 


BOSTON AND NEW YORK. 



























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F OWE LI and vicinity of to-fay. 


run to Nashua, fourteen miles up the river; but canoe¬ 
ists can go a dozen miles farther without meeting an 
obstruction. Others of the steamers ply between the city 
and Tyng’s Island, Harmony Grove in Tyngsboro and 
Woodlawn, all summer resorts. 

The Vesper Boat Club, with i members, is estab¬ 
lished in an elegant club house on Pawtucket street. It 
controls a numerous navy of canoes and row boats, and 
counts among its members some of the crack sailing 
canoeists of the country. There is no other boat club 


Mascuppic Lake, otherwise known as Tyng’s Pond, 
is situated at the foot of Whortleberry Hill, four miles 
from Lowell. It is reached by the electric line of the 
Lowell & Suburban Street Railway Company. The com¬ 
pany owns two sides of the lake. At one end is the 
Lakeview Pavilion where excellent food is served. Here, 
too, are the bowling alleys and the dance hall. A finely 
conducted theatre, in a new building, has been a most 
successful feature the present season. On the southerly 
shore are Mountain Rock and Mascuppic Groves. The 


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GEO. C. MOORE’S MILLS, 

on the Merrimack, but there are several boat houses. 

On the Concord there is an unbroken stretch of four 
miles to North Billerica. There the carry is over the 
bank into the old canal, and then there is an unobstructed 
passage to Old Concord and Saxonville beyond. Many 
canoeists make the trip of the Concord. Starting at Sud¬ 
bury and entering the Merrimack at Lowell, they go down 
to Newbury port and the sea. There are two clubs on the 
Concord, the Wamesit and the Musquetaquid. 


NORTH CHELMSFORD. 

former is fitted with pavilion, dance hall and bowling 
alley for private picnic parties; the latter is reserved for 
camping purposes. The pines surrounding the lake are 
particularly tall and the spot is one of the loveliest 
conceivable. Willow Dale, on the eastern shore of the 
lake, is an old established and popular resort kept by 
Jona. Bowers. 

This lake affords the people of Lowell cheap and 
perfect pleasure. The round trip costs 20 cents, and it 





















GEO. C. MOORE , 



AND MANUFACTURER OF 


Worsted Carpet Yarns 


FINE AND COARSE 

g CAMELS HAIR TOPS AND NOILS. 



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LOWELI AND VICINITY OF TO-DAY. 


SILVER & GAY COMPANY. 


A S an accessory to the great manufacturing interests 
of New England this concern is one of the most 
important industries of this section. The business was 
inaugurated in 1832 by Ira Gay, the proprietors becom¬ 
ing Ira Gay & Co., Gay, Silver & Co., and Silver & Gay 
successively, until July, 1SS7, when ihe present firm name 
of Silver & Gay Co. was adopted 

The works of this company are located at North 
Chelmsford, Mass., and comprise four buildings, 90 x 40 
feet, 7S x 40 feet, 54 x 37 feet in dimensions respectively, 


dynamometers, water wheel regulators, spring pins, flat 
spring keys, spindles, flyers, etc. The company makes 
a specialty of automatic ball winders, quilling machines, 
and spring cotter pins. The concern has especial facil¬ 
ities for executing heavy lathe and planer work, and in 
every regard successfully competes with all comers for 
work in their line. The business extends to all manufac¬ 
turing centres in this and in many foreign countries, and 
has attained proportions of great importance. Mr. Ziba 
Gay, the proprietor of the business, was born in 1S23, 



the first named being four stories and the others three 
stories in height, with a forge building 52x44 feet in size. 

The machinery is operated bv water power, a turbine 
wheel being the motor, and one-hundred and twenty-five 
hands can be employed in the various departments of the 
works. The company manufactures all kinds of carpet 
and worsted machinery, including automatic ball winders, 
quillers (wet or dry) for carpet looms, and for webbing, 
bagging and duck looms, doublers, drum spoolers, twis¬ 
ters, reels, roll coverets, power baling presses, balance 


and has been connected with the concern since 1S46, when 
he was graduated from Yale College, and since 1859 has 
been a partner or proprietor. 

He has filled the positions of Postmaster of North 
Chelmsford, Selectman of the town, and represented his 
district in the State Legislature with marked abilitv An 
expert in every detail of his business, and a busi¬ 
ness man of rare energy and enterprise, he has built up 
a large business and established for his works an enviable 
reputation both at home and abroad. 























H ON. F. T. GREENHALGE, who ably repre¬ 
sented the Eighth Massachusetts District in the 
Fifty-first Congress, came to Lowell with his father 
from England when very young. He entered the 

Lowell High School in 1S56, being the highest in 
rank of all the entering class. He went through the 
four years’ High School course in three years, and 
entered Harvard College July, 1S59. In his sopho¬ 
more year in college he gained considerable distinc¬ 
tion in the “ Institute of 1S70.” He was one of the 

principal participants in the memorable debate on 

Warren Hastings, Gorham Phillip Stevens, who sub¬ 
sequently died of wounds on the field of Williamsburg, 
being his opponent. He entered as a student in the 
law office of Brown & Alger, in March, 1S63, 

remaining up to September of that year, and was 

admitted to practice at the Middlesex County Bar in 
June, 1S65. He was elected mayor in 1S79, and was 
almost unanimously re-elected the following year. In 
1SS4 he was delegate to the Republican National 

Convention and was chosen a member of the Legis¬ 
lature in November of that year. In iSS^ he was 
elected City Solicitor, and he appeared successfully 
many times during his term of office against lead¬ 
ing attorneys of the State. At the present time 

he is mentioned very prominently as a candidate for 
gubernatorial honors. lie has, deservedly, a national 
reputation. 


T HIS prominent member of the Lowell bar was born April 
9, 1S59, and was educated in the Grammar and High 
schools of this, his native city. After having completed a 
full course of law studies he was admitted to practice, and 
began his professional career in Lowell in 1S80. Until Jan¬ 
uary 11, 1S93, he was in partnership in practice with N. 
D. Pratt, the firm having been dissolved at that date. While 
preparing for admission to the bar, Mr. Quinn was engaged 
in journalism, being the Lowell correspondent of the Boston 
Globe for two years, and president of the Daily News Com¬ 
pany and editorial writer during that period. In 1SS3 he 
was elected one of the directors of the Public Library, and 
a year later, at the age of twenty-five years, he was elected 
a member of the Board of Aldermen, being the youngest 
man ever elected to a seat in that body. Mr. Quinn is a 
popular member of the Lowell and ^Middlesex County Bat 
Association and also of the Ancient Order ot Foresters and 
the Knisrhts of Columbus. He was married Januaiv 28, 18S9, 
to Miss Dorothy F. Cummiskey. His ability as an advocate 
and counsellor is recognized by bench and bar, and his 
success in his profession has been as decided as it has been 
deserved. 


E. I). QUINN, ESQ, 















ABEL WHEELER. 

HE subject of this brief biographical notice, Mr. 
Abel Wheeler, is one of Lowell’s most successful 
and substantial business men. He was born at Sudbury, 
Mass., June i, 1S43, and is a son of Irving Wheeler 
and Pollv Cutter Temple His education was obtained at 
Wadsworth Academy, in his native town, and he began his 
business life as a manufacturer of machinery in Portland, 
Maine. He removed to Lowell in 1872 and has since 
that time successfully engaged in business of various 
kinds. 

Mr. Wheeler is now Chairman of the Board of 
Principal Assessors of Lowell, and is recognized as a 
faithful, efficient and reliable official. He is an active 
and honored member of Lowell Council, Royal Arcanum, 
and is the Regent of that body. Mr. Wheeler was 
married December 20, 1S66, to Miss Sarah B , daughter 
of Charles Hamilton of Portland, Maine, and his second 
marriage was celebrated November 26, 1S70, when Miss 
Nellie Louise Fernald, M. D., daughter of Mark Fernald 
of Lowell, became his wife. In business, as in social 
and official life, Mr. Wheeler is held in highest esteem 
for his integrity, energy and worth. 

ST. CHARLES HOTEL 

ANKS with the best hotels in the interior of New 
England, and was erected about nineteen years ago. 
Mr. Charles M. Dickey took charge of the St Charles in 
iSSS, and by close attention to the wants of the traveling 
public has made it extremely popular, setting a sumptuous 
table and in all possible ways ministering to the comfort 
and pleasure of his guests, both transient and permanent 
— and of the latter he has many—for no one is more ap¬ 
preciative of the good things of this life than the regular, 
experienced boarder. In the hard work of popularizing 
and bringing the house to its present condition of pros¬ 
perity Mr. Dickey is a favorite with all who have busi¬ 
ness or social relations with him. The St. Charles is a 
large and well-appointed hotel, conveniently situated, brick, 
four stories in height, containing seventy-five rooms, with 
neat office, reading and billiard-rooms, bar, barber shop, 
etc., on the first floor; sitting-rooms, parlors, dining-room 
that will accommodate 125 guests at once on the second, 
and fifty cosy, clean and delightful chambers on the third 
and fourth floors, with baths, hot and cold water, gas 
and electric lights, and electric bells and fire escapes. 
Charles M. Dickey, proprietor, 171 to 183 Middlesex St. 



Architects. 

This prominent and well-known firm of Architects 
is located at Nos. 4S and 49 Hildreth Building. It has 
designed some of the finest buildings in the country, in¬ 
cluding 

BUSINESS BLOCKS, 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS, 

CHURCHES, 

PRIVATE RESIDENCES, 

DWELLING HOUSES AND 

MONUMENTAL WORK. 

LOWELL, UVE-iLSS. 


WILDER BENNETT. 

HIS veteran Contractor and Builder is one of the 
oldest and most successful business men of Lowell, 
and for fifty years has been a recognized leader in his 
line of industrial enterprise in this city. He was born 
April 17, 1813, and at the age of 19 years he came to 
Lowell, where he has since remained. In 1S44 he engaged 
in business on his own account, and during the past halt 
century has planned and erected a greater number of the 
finer class of business blocks and private residences than 
any other contractor in the city. The Appleton Bank, 
Central Block, Old Post Office Building, First Methodist, 
First Congregational and Eliot Churches are monuments 
of his skill as a builder, and many other buildings were 
erected under his direction. 

Lie is the oldest, although one of the most active 
and influential members of the Masonic and Odd Fellows’ 
fraternities in the city, and is prominent in business 
circles. He was for nine years the efficient Superintend¬ 
ent of Streets in Lowell, and for four years Super¬ 
intendent of the Horse Railroad of the city. His busi¬ 
ness place is No. ^ Merrimack Street. His father as early 
as 1823, had charge of all the mason work of Lowell. 






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